Good to know: list of stuff the Transportation Security Agency says you can take on a plane. It’s pretty amusing in places. You can’t take a sword but you can take your KY gel. So if you wonder why that…
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Outdoor blogger meet-up proposed
by tmangan • September 1, 2006 • 2 Comments
GoBlog has finally tired of waiting for me to organize this — which was my plan all along: throw out an idea I’m too lazy to implement myself and let somebody else run with it. So far all the GoBlog…
Bear Cans, Part II
by tmangan • September 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
WildeBeat has the scoop.
Someplace to buy single servings
by tmangan • August 30, 2006 • 1 Comment
Check out www.minimus.biz — which sells single-serving condiments, drinks (coffee!) and other travel-size goodies.
A few backpacking links
by tmangan • August 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Gadling visits a High Sierra lake. Justin shares tips on Shenandoah National Park. Best Hikes links to a hard-core Peruvian adventure.
Speaking of mishaps
by tmangan • August 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Andrew at the Washington Trail Association wants to hear your favorite outdoor gaffes. And there’s this from the Our Hike gals, somewhere in Utah: Then we took our break under a big juniper tree. As we were getting up to…
Map mavens, rejoice!
by tmangan • August 29, 2006 • 0 Comments
Two-Heel Drive reader Erik Cox directed me to the site of a guy who has collected all 56,000 U.S. Geographical Survey maps and intends to make them available to the public. He’s already collected $1,600 to defray his costs and…
Planning your PCT thru-hike?
by tmangan • August 28, 2006 • 2 Comments
Backpacker magazine has a quickie guide. I found this part about starting in Canada and heading south interesting. A few hikers will begin in late June from Manning Provincial Park and hike southbound to Campo. Southbound hikers can still expect…
A Kilimanjaro survivor’s tale
by tmangan • August 28, 2006 • 0 Comments
A writer for the Honolulu Advertiser recounts: At 18,000 feet, the altitude ambushed me. I could barely breathe, and my water bottles were frozen solid. My head pulsed, my legs wobbled like a newborn calf’s and I saw things that…