A DSLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera, which is the big, bulky brother of the compact point-and-shoots favored by the digital masses. DSLRs are capable of taking far better pictures than point-and-shoots because they have bigger and better sensors,…
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UPDATE: Turkey Day Mini-Meetup at Mission Peak
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 11 Comments
CHANGE O’ PLANS: Dan Mitchell wants to do this at dawn to catch the sunrise from the top of the peak. This would require a 5:30 a.m. launch from the trailhead to get up to the top at 6:55. There…
Thoughts on camping under a tarp
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 3 Comments
Paul Davis of Hike-Lite blog has more aesthetic than weight-shaving reasons for tarping: On a perfect night a tarp provides the user with an incomparable sense of connection with the outdoors. Waking up to a sunrise under a tarp is…
Passing of a hiker’s hiker
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 0 Comments
Washington Trail Association blog writes about guidebook author and conservationist Harvey Manning, who died over the weekend. His style could be abrasive, but his tenacity and his insistence that hikers become active conservationists led to many lands in Washington being…
Funnybone’s advice for PCT wannabes
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 1 Comment
His Pacific Crest Trail adventure complete, Chuckie V. dispenses bits of wisdom. Hike your own hike. Basic advice here. Anybody who tells you this more than once really means “Hike your own hike MY WAY.” Ignore them; they’re imbeciles. Gear…
Lots o’ Hong Kong hikes
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 1 Comment
Techotek! belongs to a guy in Hong Kong who has tramped all over the hills nearby. I’m posting this one for LittlePo because I know she can read the Chinese posts. Techotek’s hiking pix are here.
Blogging with Flickr
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 3 Comments
I post tons of pix over on my main homepage, and up until recently I would studiously crop and resize each picture for upload to my hosted domain. Even with the pictures optimized for minimum byte usage, eventually they’ll fill…
Essential blogging tool: Mozilla Firefox 2.0
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 2 Comments
I downloaded Version 2 of Mozilla Firefox the other day an I’m liking what I’m seeing. Two features make my blogging life happy: Inline spell-checker: It’ll flag any misspelled words you type into a Web form, which makes it especially…
Forest of Nisene Parks State Park: A good day to be in the woods
by tmangan • November 12, 2006 • 1 Comment
So I arrive at a municipal parking lot in Los Gatos where I’m supposed to meet my fellow hikers and I see some folks milling about. They look gray-haired and respectable, so I park the Hiker Hauler and wander over.…