Following up on a hike Calipidder did a couple weeks back, I hiked up the Monument Peak Trail on Saturday (words & pix here) to see if I could find any remnants of a fighter jet that crashed there 55…
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Thru-canoeing
by tmangan • November 20, 2006 • 0 Comments
Last night, way past bedtime, I did one last look at Trail Journals and noticed a reference to the Mississippi River. Further study revealed a journal kept by woman who paddled a canoe the entire length of the Mississippi last…
Why Castle Rock, uh, rocks
by tmangan • November 19, 2006 • 0 Comments
Castle Rock State Park is not my favorite place to hike. Not even in my Top 3 (Henry Coe, Big Basin, Sunol Wilderness) … too many people, too few butt-buster trails. I’ve gone there twice in the past three weeks…
Out looking for some wreckage
by tmangan • November 18, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’ve hiked up the Monument Peak Trail at Ed Levin County Park dozens of times but only recently did I learn I had been walking right past remnants of a plane crash on the hill back in the 1950s. I…
We’re No. 8
by tmangan • November 18, 2006 • 7 Comments
According to the blog of Base Camp Communications, a PR agency for outdoors companies. Base Camp’s rankings: The Piton – Well-connected industry insiders slinging velvet-tipped stones near and far. The broad sweep of their BS radar has marketing execs and…
Why it’s good to be named Tom
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Because yet another of us has an outdoors blog. Here’s one called Out There With Tom, by Tom Kotynski, a retired associate editor with the Great Falls Tribune. It’s all snowy in the Montana peaks these days so he’s talking…
AT thru-hiking off by more than 50 percent since ’99
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 1 Comment
This story from a Connecticut paper about the waning interest in backpacking drops this interesting tidbit: Even more dramatic is the drop in long-distance backpackers who set out each year to hike the entire 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to…
A few notable blog entries
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Dirt Diva, a class of 2006 Appalachian Trail hiker, posts her final entries, which include many fine images from the three seasons she encountered. Her comments on summer sound more like a warning: Summer seemed to last forever. The spring…
What you get when you Google “hiker trash”
by tmangan • November 16, 2006 • 0 Comments
Second on the list is the site of Paul “Mags” Magnanti, who just this month finished the Continental Divide Trail. His site has reams of hiking info, and tons of pictures from his travels, which are many. Bonus: he has…