PCT thru-hiker Funnybone tells how it’s done. To “yogi” is to ask for something—in this case, a ride down to Independence—without actually asking. I define yogi-ing as such: implying you could use help without inquiring for help. It goes like…
Backpacking
Links and comments about backpacking, camping and long distance hiking at Two-Heel Drive
Re: Camping & backpacking on the wane
by tmangan • June 16, 2006 • 5 Comments
From a Sacramento Bee editorial: Overnight camping stays in the national parks have dropped more than 20 percent over the past decade. The outdoor industry finds long-distance backpacking is off by 25 percent since 1998. It might be tempting to…
Ryan Jordan and his buds are off to the Arctic
by tmangan • June 13, 2006 • 0 Comments
First entry from his first day (well, night) of hiking is here.
Latest hiking chatter
by tmangan • June 13, 2006 • 0 Comments
Whole lotta hikin goin on out there. Highlights from this morning’s RSS feed check: Jason Lustig looks back fondly on his Appalachian Trail thru-hike of 2000. How do I put into words the beauty that I saw? I saw painted…
Around the lakes
by tmangan • June 12, 2006 • 9 Comments
The only thing easy about Henry Coe State Park is the decision to go there. Easy because you can camp out almost anywhere you want without reserving a campsite. The odds are heavily in your favor that you’ll have much…
Getting your pack on a plane
by tmangan • June 9, 2006 • 4 Comments
A thread at alt.rec.hiking discusses the usual issues of whether to take a fuel bottle on a plane (in a word: no) and what to do to avoid pack straps getting caught in baggage-handling machinery. This looked like an interesting…
The AT as Ultimate Summer Camp
by tmangan • June 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Jordan McCarron at mile 799.1 of the Appalachian Trail: We can play outside from the moment the sun comes up until it goes down and even then we can sleep out in tents. We can have campfires and make s’mores…
‘Hiker Heaven’ on the PCT
by tmangan • June 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
From the LiveJournal blog of Redtail, at mile 454 on the Pacific Crest Trail: Hiker Heaven … is an experience unto itself. THGTTPCT tries to give some flavor of it in the page and a half it devotes to the…
Ryan Jordan explains himself
by tmangan • June 3, 2006 • 1 Comment
We had a pretty lively discussion the week before last about Ryan Jordan’s Arctic 1000, the 600-mile trek that will take him and two fellow adventurers to the remotest place in the United States. In describing what he and his…