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Latest WTA Magazine …
by tmangan • May 14, 2007 • 1 Comment
Is on women and hiking. If you’ve been on a trail lately, it should be no surprise that women are out there hiking — in great numbers. In fact, about forty-seven percent of hikers in the U.S. are women. A…
What the shivers mean
by tmangan • May 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
Hypothermia, natch. From lightbackpacking.com: At Caribou Lakes Wilderness last year, backpacking buddies Duke, Wild Bill and I walked a 10-mile day-hike loop in t-shirts. When we returned to base camp, the sky was clouding up and Bill decided to go…
A fine day at Henry Coe
by tmangan • May 13, 2007 • 1 Comment
Every year around Mother’s Day, Mike and Kathy take their hiking club out to Henry Coe State Park, where wildflowers tend to still be in bloom and the weather’s pleasant enough that the park’s hills can be survived without keeping…
A quiz
by tmangan • May 11, 2007 • 3 Comments
Who can guess where this picture was taken?
Standard avoiding venomous snakes article
by tmangan • May 11, 2007 • 1 Comment
Whatever you do, don’t try to pick one up. (I sorta think people who trifle with rattlesnakes get what they deserve … snake’s just slithering about his business and gives you a polite rattle that says “stay away or I’ll…
Interesting facts about vultures
by tmangan • May 11, 2007 • 1 Comment
Happened across a blog posting from a guy who visited Pleasanton Ridge Park the other day and had this to say about vultures: These ubiquitous birds are pretty amazing: They feed primarily on a wide variety of carrion, from small…
Trails near Rainier in rough shape
by tmangan • May 10, 2007 • 0 Comments
Karen Sykes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an update on the beatings trails have taken in the Cascades. Especially hard hit are trails in the area known as The Mountain Loop, between Darrington and Granite Falls. The Darrington Ranger District…
Why we hike, cont.
by tmangan • May 10, 2007 • 0 Comments
Fedak sent along a link to an interesting discussion on the appeal of hiking. A very good book on the subject of walking is written by Rory Stewart, The Places In Between. Mr. Stewart is a historian who finds himself…