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…
Backpacking
Links and comments about backpacking, camping and long distance hiking at Two-Heel Drive
Well, this is cool
by tmangan • August 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
Bone Pac, the guy who was the first to finish the Appalachian Trail this season, has something trailworthy going on: Upon arriving home after the thru-hike I quickly submerged myself into to routine goings-ons of my pre-hike life (which I…
The world according to Funnybone
by tmangan • August 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
AKA Chuckie V, at mile 1595 of the Pacific Crest Trail: Things like this disturb me. How is someone supposed to afford to live in California? To me, it’s not a fair trade (and, in fact, a rather fatuous one)…
Just five more to go
by tmangan • August 23, 2006 • 0 Comments
Conductor, at Mile 2160.9 on the Appalachian Trail: In reality it’s just a climb, only five miles, over in mid afternoon. In our dreams it is the finale, the place we have hiked so far to reach. After all, it’s…
The family that backpacks together…
by tmangan • August 23, 2006 • 2 Comments
A correspondent from a small-town paper in Tennessee shares reflections of family members who spent five days on the Appalachian Trial in Maryland. It’s 6:30 and I am wrapping another layer of duct tape around my feet to keep my…
For beginning backpackers
by tmangan • August 22, 2006 • 0 Comments
Somebody posted a question at Google Groups about what stuff to get when just starting out. Hilarity ensued. Well, not exactly but at least a flame war didn’t break out, despite this provocation to the ultralight crowd: While Ultralighting seems…
Getting out on the trail
by tmangan • August 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
From the Fresno Bee’s John Muir Trail blog: As we start out, I feel more like I’m herded than hiking. I’m dejected and lonely and thinking about the people who say I shouldn’t be out here. And how my very…
Deep woods coffee
by tmangan • August 17, 2006 • 6 Comments
National Parks Traveler says a quality cup o’ joe is now available in the backcountry, via a product that comes in little squeeze packages. At last week’s Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City I ran into the folks behind…
On being good
by tmangan • August 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Redtail is a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hiker who was forced off the trail by knee issues. In the ample spare time he’s had since returning home, he’s amassed a list of thru-hiking rules. No. 5 is my fave: 5. Cultivate…