Last night I watched an excellent PBS documentary about the Gold Rush, in which tens of thousands of greedy dreamers from around the world converged on Northern California in search of easy money, which wasn’t to be found in the…
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Lots o’ links
by tmangan • November 6, 2006 • 2 Comments
Rick of Best Hikes has been racking up a ton of great posts of late. To wit: The World’s Most Dangerous Tourist Route Fast vs. slow hiking in a group. Paria, the best canyon hike in the world. Hiking the…
One for the Trail Journals greatest hits file
by tmangan • November 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
From Funnybone’s PCT journal: It was an hideous day, the kind that reminds you that you’d rather be indoors reading or sitting in front of the telly or perhaps even doing the dishes or standing in line at the Department…
Another hike with Seagull
by tmangan • November 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
When last we encountered Seagull, my Chinese hiking friend, the two of us traveled to Point Reyes to gaze upon elk and the Pacific Ocean. Since then Seagull came upon a Chinese-American outdoors club based in San Francisco that took…
Why are we blogging?
by tmangan • November 4, 2006 • 2 Comments
I noticed that Chris Clarke of the Creek Running North blog has gone on hiatus. I can understand the temptation, having put my share of blogs and other sites in mothballs because I had run out of the time/energy/interest required…
Strengthening your ankles
by tmangan • November 4, 2006 • 0 Comments
A hiker asks Outside magazine’s fitness guru how to build stronger ankles. Turns out previous injuries that haven’t healed properly can cause weakness down the road: In addition to being born with loose ankles, you can also develop them due…
This one’s for Fedak
by tmangan • November 3, 2006 • 1 Comment
In honor of his broken leg, here’s a link to a woman who broke hers on a trail in Corsica, possibly monkey-wrenching her plans to thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail next summer. In August, I was hiking with my husband…
National Parks links
by tmangan • November 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
Gadling linked to USA-C2C.com, the site of a guy and his wife who are traveling to every national park and most national historic sites. Their site has rankings on amenities, scenic splendor, accessibility and other stuff of interest to tourist…
Why Teddy Roosevelt was way cool
by tmangan • November 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened across this quote attributed to him: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the…