Must Be This Way laments the lack of lightweight backpacking gear sold in the UK. Back before there was Go Lite, people just made their own stuff. Heck, Ray Jardine built a business around it. I spent an hour or…
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Way-cool canyoneering video
by tmangan • January 14, 2006 • 0 Comments
UT Outdoors has a very nifty video of a slot-canyoneering trip near Lake Powell. Extra credit for the Jack Johnson soundtrack. (Not recommended for the highly claustrophobic.)
Short and sweet blog roll
by tmangan • January 13, 2006 • 0 Comments
Sun’s a comin’ up, skies looking clear, which means I’m hiking this morning, but I plucked these notable links from the predawn gloom: Must Be This Way is a UK-based walking & trekking blog I found the other day. Latest…
Go not so Lite
by tmangan • January 12, 2006 • 3 Comments
GoLite seems to have had a big role in popularizing lightweight backpacking. Its frameless packs weigh next to nothing (pound and a half, max), which is inviting to all those who sleep under tarps and trim their sleeping pads to…
Bare your naked sole
by tmangan • January 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a whole site devoted to leaving your shoes behind.
Shape up for that Big Hike
by tmangan • January 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
Backpacker magazine has three workout regimens for three kinds of hikes: a killer day hike, a weeklong trek and a mountain ascent. I suppose if you were into maximum efficiency you’d just train for the mountain ascent and you’d have…
Finding the cheap stuff
by tmangan • January 11, 2006 • 1 Comment
I’ve been tracking HikerDeals.com for the past couple weeks. I wanted to see if it was legit or some kind of automated spamblog. Seems to be on the level — the discounts are pretty good and the site commentary looks…
What to do after high school
by tmangan • January 11, 2006 • 3 Comments
You think all the kids are glued to their TVs and wrist-locked to their Xboxes? One poster at Whiteblaze.net is agonizing over whether to start college or hike 2000 miles first, then start college. Many of the Whiteblaze veterans insisted:…
Catching up with our favorite blogs
by tmangan • January 10, 2006 • 0 Comments
Let’s do da roll: Bay Area Hiking Mama hasn’t hiked in awhile but she does have an amusing tale of meeting a naked guy on the trail. Jonathan Claxton makes me wonder: who knew Tennesse had so many waterfalls? Sounds…