So I checked this morning to see if I’d gotten any more votes in the Outdoor Blog of the Year contest (no time like the present to move me up in the rankings!) and I happened across a really interesting…
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Weekend update
by tmangan • December 13, 2005 • 0 Comments
It’s Tuesday, which means folks updated their blogs last night to keep the essence of the weekend lingering after the first day back at work. In the Bay Area: Airplane Journal’s second post describes a rugged hike at Pescadero Creek…
Blog of the Year update
by tmangan • December 12, 2005 • 2 Comments
The Outdoor Blogging Network’s Best Outdoor Blog of 2005 is looking like a runaway for Up In Alaska, the biking-and-pictures blog of Jill Homer, a scribe for the Homer, Alaska, Tribune. For all you way-cool Firefox users, I’ve noticed the…
When you really need to get away from it all
by tmangan • December 12, 2005 • 0 Comments
Not just away, but really, really, away: Think Iceland. From a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel travel piece on hiking the Icelandic backcountry: Geologists consider Hengill one of the world’s most geothermically active areas. Hot springs and geysers dot the landscape. Mud pots,…
Two new blogs to report
by tmangan • December 12, 2005 • 0 Comments
I don’t know if everybody in the Bay Area’s getting the same idea at the same time, but hiking blogs around here seem to be popping up like mushrooms. Airplane Journal has just one post so far, but it’s a…
My latest hike posted
by tmangan • December 11, 2005 • 0 Comments
Verbiage and pixage at my homepage.
Like I need an excuse to go hiking
by tmangan • December 11, 2005 • 1 Comment
Any walk through the woods beats a day at the office. I know because I worked six days last week — I had lot to compare this week’s hike to. I worked till about midnight Saturday, then woke up at…
Hiking your gut off
by tmangan • December 10, 2005 • 1 Comment
A few months after I became a hiking fiend in the summer of 2004, people started telling me, “Tom, you’re getting skinny.” Well, a few did. Often they’d ask me what happened. What I told people was that Tony Soprano…
Recent finds
by tmangan • December 10, 2005 • 3 Comments
I’ve happened across a couple blogs worthy of note. Houston Guy is a blogger who likes hiking and motorcycle touring; on really good days, he combines both (which saves wear and tear on the ol’ feet, though can get ugly…