In the old days people figured backpacking meant you had to haul 50 pounds around. These days with all the ultra-light fanatics dominating the conversation, you’re looked upon as the silliest sort of fool if you carry more than 25…
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Time for their close-up
by tmangan • January 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
What’ll people do to get on television? We found out a bit on Saturday when K half of the FOMFOK hiking group, and a friend of hers from work, took to the Santa Cruz Mountains to prepare their entry video…
Snowshoeing: Nothing to it
by tmangan • January 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Businessweek has a quick guide to snowshoeing with enough expensive name brands to drive the GoBlog guys up a wall (which is what they like to do, as long as ropes are involved). This sentence struck me: Atlas’ spring-loaded snowshoes…
Just for fun…
by tmangan • January 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Outdoor Sports Blog links to somebody who believes Big Foot is real. All I can say is, most of the backcountry is unexplored by humans; judging from the rarity of seeing other people on the trails in populated areas, I…
How things are gonna be the next few months
by tmangan • January 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
After a solid week of rain we had three nice days, Wednesday to Friday, which I took advantage of by hitting the trails as much as I could in available time and sunlight. That meant less time for blogging, alas,…
Mud, if you must
by tmangan • January 4, 2006 • 0 Comments
The sane thing to do about muddy trails is hike someplace else. I try to be normal but there are times when I’m repulsed by the easy, sane choice and beguiled by the difficult, ludicrous one. My mom is still…
Let us now roll great blogs
by tmangan • January 4, 2006 • 5 Comments
Linkage has been light the past few days, but tonight I warmed up my RSS reader and tracked down a raft of fresh posts from our favorite hiking/outdoor blogs. To wit: Airplane Journal goes to Marin County for a hike…
Had to hike this morning
by tmangan • January 4, 2006 • 0 Comments
It was the first combination of my head being mostly free of mucous and the skies not being full of storms since, well, Christmas, I suppose, so I hit the trails. They were ankle-deep in mud, but I was prepared.…
Looking ahead
by tmangan • January 3, 2006 • 3 Comments
2005 is so last year; it’s time to think about this one. I know just one thing for sure: I’m planning a week in mid-September in Southern Utah at a bed & breakfast located strategically between Zion and Bryce Canyon…