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Will dive for food
by tmangan • May 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
Another priceless animal video: a white tiger that will plunge under water for scraps of meat. Hat tip to Go Blog, where Climb_Ca, in a blog bonding ritual with Ebomb, has ridiculed the Bombster’s news judgment and questioned his grasp…
Ultra-runner aims to break 78-day PCT record
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 3 Comments
Catra Corbett of Fremont, CA, (my first California locale) plans to set a new record for thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. She has wacky hair, enough body art to fill a New York gallery and a shoe contract that got…
A Crow sighting
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 0 Comments
A reporter with the Riverside Press-Enterprise tags along with Ray Clark, a PCT thru-hiker who goes by the trail name Sole to Soul. He met Pat, AKA Crow, along the way: In the morning, Clark came upon Pat Pieper, a…
Nomination for most unfortunate past-tense use “hump”
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 1 Comment
Tough guy/Iraq veteran/cop rescuer totes 47-year-old woman to safety after she fractured her ankle on a remote trail in North Jerseys’ Ramapo Reservation. Tapia, 28, had to negotiate rocks, skirt fallen trees, and wade through water, with the injured woman…
Wow, a snow snorkel
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 1 Comment
Appropriate, now that the snow season’s pretty much over: I happened upon a link to the Black Diamond Avalung, which allows people trapped in avalanches to breathe by taking air from the surrounding snow and rerouting exhaled air somewhere else.…
A fine Appalachian Trail blog
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 5 Comments
Alert reader Jeremiah Kemper pointed me to Ben and Lauren’s 2007 Adventure. Their latest post is from Erwin, Tennessee (mile 338.7), so there’s lots more hiking — and, more importantly, blogging — to go as they travel north. I found…
Turkey tales
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 4 Comments
I noticed this cool post at the Dzonoqua’s Whistle blog from last weekend. It starts with a rather tragic description of an abandoned duck’s nest, the moves on to an interesting passage about a wild turkey hen and her chicks.…
Parks reservation system crash
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, National Parks Traveler reported yesterday: The folks at Great Smoky Mountains National Park report that the national reservation system for the park systems’ campgrounds crashed earlier today. As a result, all of Great…