… and I’ll give it a rest for awhile. I just wanted to provide quick impressions of the people I met over the weekend. Climb_CA: Much nicer in person. Tall and buff, able to scale impossible rock scrambles on no…
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So long, Shasta; Hello, Damascus
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
The weekend after Mother’s Day is Trail Days 2007 in Damascus, Virginia. I’ve made up my mind I’m going. Rick of Best Hikes has the dates — May 18, 19, 20 — penciled it in, and Cutter says he can…
Images from the Ho down
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 4 Comments
We drove, we drank, we hiked, we dined. We slept under a stupendous autumn moon, snacked at the foot an immense exctinct volcano. Good times, as Winehiker Russ put it. With no further ado, here are my pictures from the…
The Ho Down scoop
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
Tom of Trout Underground has posted a couple pictures from our weekend outing near Mount Shasta. Heres’ one post. Here’s another. I’m busy unpacking and restowing gear but I’ll try to get some pictures posted this morning.
Ho Down weekend is upon us
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 1 Comment
Rick‘s flying in from Canada, Szu-Ting‘s flying over from Philly and a quartet of Bay Area bloggers are meeting Mr. Trout Underground near Mount Shasta around dinnertime for food, camping and chit-chat. Saturday we hike a bit of the Pacific…
Tracking next year’s thru-hikers
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 1 Comment
Any of my hiking-blogging brethren interested in culling the best from the Class of 2007 thru-hikers who are posting at Trail Journals? I’ve already looked over about a dozen potential Pacific Crest Trail hikers and I can only guess how…
PCT documentary in the works
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
Tell It on the Mountain aims to document the Pacific Crest Trail Class of 2007 by sending a bunch of thru-hikers out on the trail with small video cameras to document their experiences. The synopsis: Who better to punctuate these…
Cutting it close
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
Those Our Hike gals are just outside of Lake Tahoe (4100-plus miles and counting!) and will be crossing the Sierra in a couple days — just in time for the light rains hitting the Bay Area today to turn into…
Getting lost vs. staying found
by tmangan • October 4, 2006 • 5 Comments
Rocky Mountain News reports on a mom, her daughter, two of her daughter’s friends and a Jack Russell terrier being found after they got lost and spent a snowy, sleety night in the Rockies near Aspen. Sure, hikers occasionally fall…