Got a note the other day from the folks at venturetree.blogspot.com, a group blog about outdoors stuff based in Nashville. The blog’s been working up steam for the past few months and looks to be off to a good start.…
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Hiking group or flash mob?
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
Do flash mobs even exist anymore? Anyway… I thought it’d be interesting to post a link to one of the local hikes listed on meetup.com. A group based in Mountain View called “Let’s hike and maybe take a break if…
Hiker dies in Marin
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Searchers found the body of Barbara Cooper, 56, who had been missing since July 20, yesterday on a hillside in the Terra Linda Ridge area. From cbs5.com: Cooper, an artist and avid hiker, was reported missing July 20 when a…
So, how’s your lens envy?
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Dan Mitchell says his equipment measures up. Lenses: I try not to succumb to Lens Fever, so I use a small set of good Canon lenses: EF 17-40mm f/4 L, EF 24-105mm f/4 IS L, EF 70-200mm f/4 L, and…
ATV menace, revisited
by tmangan • July 24, 2007 • 2 Comments
A news release about Rangers for Responsible Recreation landed in my in-box yesterday (sometimes they think I’m an actual journalist or something). The rangers are putting the word out on reckless use of ATVs on public lands. BLM statistics obtained…
A creature feature
by tmangan • July 23, 2007 • 1 Comment
Tom Stienstra of that other paper has a raft of interesting California wildlife factoids. Among the highlights: The fisher, a small predator in the weasel family, is among the few animals that can attack and kill a porcupine. Tarantulas can…
Essential site: Greenbelt Alliance
by tmangan • July 23, 2007 • 3 Comments
The Greenbelt Alliance is a lobbying group for wild lands around the Bay Area. One of the reasons we have so many hiking options is that outfits like this one are working behind the scenes to make it happen. The…
Four wide open space preserves
by tmangan • July 22, 2007 • 5 Comments
I couldn’t tell what the four guys in the big red fire truck from the California Department of Forestry were up to. Didn’t smell smoke, though, so I figured it must’ve been a Sunday training hike. About six steps into…
A great-bloggers-think-alike moment
by tmangan • July 21, 2007 • 1 Comment
Remember how I was lavishing praise on VirtualParks.org the other day? Well, just now I did some poking around at the non-local sites I used to watch every day and found that since early July, at least three other blogs…