This is interesting: The Fresno Bee is sending four pairs of writers & photographers out on the John Muir Trail, whose southern terminus is down in the general direction of Fresno. How come? The trail, a north-south footpath completed in…
Backpacking
Links and comments about backpacking, camping and long distance hiking at Two-Heel Drive
The bear went thataway
by tmangan • July 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
From BlackHole & Guac’s Pacific Crest Trail journal, at mile 1050.8: In the afternoon I spotted a big, cinnamon colored bear near a small creek (King’s Creek, I think). BlackHole and I watched him eat, about 200 feet away. We…
Another two days in the wilderness
by tmangan • July 17, 2006 • 6 Comments
It’s about 2 in the morning and I’m staring into the black nylon of my sleeping bag. I should be staring out the little hole that makes this a "mummy-style" bag, but my twisting and turning has entered the Olympic…
Packing out your poop
by tmangan • July 12, 2006 • 3 Comments
I keep promising not to write any more about bodily functions and keep breaking that promise but I have to figure, heck, everybody’s got to go, right? So anyway: The last overnight trip I went on passed a popular lake…
WildeBeat sighting
by tmangan • July 10, 2006 • 2 Comments
One of the Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers mentions bumping into Steve Sergeant and a friend at a resort along the trail: When I was checking out the bath-house I met WildeGeek and Patty who had just finshed a section of…
Bone-Pac finishes the AT
by tmangan • July 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’ve been so busy following Pacific Crest Trail hiker exploits that I neglected to check out the Trail Journal entries of a guy named Bone-Pac, who was one of the fastest hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Well, while I was…
Another Funnybone moment
by tmangan • July 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Chuckie V. again demonstrates why his Pacific Crest Trail journal is the most post-worthy of the bunch. Just a few days ago, I labored along Selden Pass’s lower slopes. A sort of no-man’s-land, this portion of the steep incline is…
There’s rain in them thar hills
by tmangan • June 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
By the time summer officially begins in the Bay Area, the wet season’s long gone and the local streams are starting to dry up. It’s nigh onto impossible to think of rain at this time of year, which is my…
Camping by lakes and trees
by tmangan • June 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
So it was back to the Carr Lake Trailhead at Tahoe National Forest this weekend for a fun three miles to Penner Lake. Scenery was fabulous, especially for whetting one’s appetite for the jaw-dropping vistas of the High Sierra. We…