A writer for the Rocky Mountain News recounts an overnighter gone wrong in just about every way possible. 4 a.m.: I’ve looked at my watch six times by now, waking every hour or so to lie there, cold, slightly damp,…
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Blogging for nickels
by tmangan • June 26, 2007 • 2 Comments
OK, so the Google Ads Experiment of 2007 is a couple days old. Average revenue per day: couple bucks and change. I could live well in the Black Hole of Calcutta on those wages. To pay my current living expenses,…
RSS feed fixed
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
NEW INFO: it seems to be back up and running now. Drop me a note if you’re having issues. Old info: It stopped showing updates this morning — I switched to a service last week called feedburner to handle all…
Laws of Boy Scout Summer Camp
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
Lone Star Scouter lists 21. Among the highlights: 2. The distance to a given camp site is constant as twilight approaches. 3. Any stone in a hiking boot will migrate to the point of maximum pressure. 5. Universally, all foods…
Major fire at South Lake Tahoe
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
So far, at least 220 buildings have been destroyed. Thousands of people were forced to flee as winds as high as 35 mph pushed the flames toward hundreds more homes on the outskirts of this resort city. Overnight, the wind…
Catra’s hiking partner
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Many are the men, apparently, who think they can keep pace with Catra — here’s the blog of the guy hiking with her at the moment. They’re at Kennedy Meadows all day today if you want to bop up there…
Learning to shoot
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
TrailDivas.com reports on a trip to a gun-safety course taught in Washington state. There is nothing though like taking classes to learn safety, to gain confidence handling them and realize that going to the range can be a fun activity.…
Calipidder in Yosemite
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rebecca did an overnighter at 10 Lakes Basin in Yosemite. The place is heaven for shutterbugs, no doubt about it. I keep thinking I’m going to work up the energy to head up to the mountains for a weekender or…
Latest hike: Sanborn Skyline County Park
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 4 Comments
Just a shady walk through the hills of a county park I hadn’t been to before. Sanborn Skyline is off Highway 9 west of Saratoga — nestled, as we love to say in the news biz — in the woods…