Old Goat put together this video slide show of his Appalachian Trail adventure last year. Pretty cool!
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Studying Hetch Hetchy
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 3 Comments
Those outside of California might be only dimly aware that there’s a “second Yosemite Valley” that happens to have 300 feet of water in it. It’s called Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and it was created in the early 20th century, much…
Massive wilderness bill in Congress
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 0 Comments
Bill Schneider at New West profiles an astoundingly huge proposed increase in the declared wilderness acreage of the Rocky Mountain region. Highlights: Protects most roadless lands in the northern Rockies (20,572,147 acres) by giving them the
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Evening On Ridge,” from the photo stream of andersen_per. Per’s caption: My friend Pete Chapman on the popular tourist route Besseggen Ridge in the mountains of Jotunheimen, Norway. The picture was shot in September in the last rays of sun.…
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 7, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Injasuthi panorama,” from the photo stream of pjvrey. Locale is Injasuthi, South Africa.
A few blog shout-outs
by tmangan • February 7, 2007 • 2 Comments
Just wanted to send along a few encouraging words about a couple blogs started in the past couple months that keep getting better. Russ at Trailcraft has an instructive should-I-GPS-or-not post. His conclusion: loves the entertainment value, leaves it at…
Shoe review update
by tmangan • February 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Ah, yes, the corporate-slut shoes,” somebody said at the Groundhog Day Invitational when I mentioned I was testing a pair of Zamberlan trail shoes I received awhile back. On the odd chance that anybody still cares about this, I figured…
Commission this
by tmangan • February 6, 2007 • 5 Comments
Yesterday I received an e-mail asking me to apply for Patagonia’s affiliate program, which would offer a 7 percent commission for every item sold from a link on my blog. I can’t imagine I’ve got enough readers to make it…
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
“over-friendly ovines,” from the photo stream of sindesign. Sindesign’s caption: “These guys would walk about 20 cm behind me while I was tramping across this field, and whenever I turned round, they would stop, and seemingly try to look nonchalant.…