Danny Bernstein plans to be in southwest Virgina for a week’s worth of trail-related doings. Among the highlights: More than 190 miles of the Appalachian Trail are featured in a series of section hikes from Dennis Cove Road in Tennessee…
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More “Zero Days” author events
by tom • July 3, 2008 • 2 Comments
Barb Egbert, my through-hiking former co-worker, has a couple more bookstore events coming up (like a twit I missed one the other day in Fremont) focusing on “Zero Days,” her book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2004 with…
PCT update: Local through-hikers have trail names
by tom • April 23, 2008 • 0 Comments
Dave and Cindy Peters have already logged their first 100 miles from the wall at Campo on the U.S.-Mexico border. They’re now calling themselves Zelda and Tarzan. How Dave got dubbed: At Scissors Crossing we stopped to rest and make…
A priceless PCT dispatch
by tom • April 21, 2008 • 1 Comment
Jellybean, from Mile 43 of the Pacific Crest trail: I was sitting on a rock out cropping yesterday to air my feet and eat a snack. I could see down into the valley and interstate 8. I was thinking Wow!…
A note for those camping in the Appalachian Trail shelters
by tom • March 11, 2008 • 2 Comments
Sgt. Rock says there’s only one plausible reason for duct tape on the ceiling: It snowed all night best as I could tell. It also turned out the shelter roof leaks. I woke up at about 0330 to a bag…
PCT journal to watch: Emily’s Dad
by tom • March 11, 2008 • 4 Comments
I went trolling for interesting candidates to follow for this hiking season. I was hoping to find some Bay Area types who are doing the trail this year (I did, but I’ll get back to that) but one journal stopped…
Andrew Skurka has only one annoying trait I know of
by tom • December 4, 2007 • 2 Comments
He never says anything to provoke cutting remarks from the snark-o-sphere (must drive the poor kids at GoBlog batty). Here’s another interview with him in his hometown paper, the Boulder Daily Camera. Earnest, honest, straightforward, and even though I’ve never…
Interview: Through-hiking the Pacific Northwest Trail
by tom • November 19, 2007 • 1 Comment
Not to be confused with the Pacific Crest Trail, the Pacific Northwest Trail runs for nearly 1,200 miles from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean. Two-Heel Drive reader and blogger Greg Seitz interviewed a friend of his who hiked…
Book review: “Zero Days”
by tmangan • November 8, 2007 • 1 Comment
The Mercury News has posted my review of Barbara Egbert’s “Zero Days,” which recounts her 2004 Pacific Crest Trail through-hike with her husband and 10-year-old daughter. Excerpt: Egbert and Chambers, who live in Sunol, started taking their daughter on backpacking…