I’ve set aside five vacation days in May coinciding with Trail Days, which runs May 18-20 in Damascus, Virginia. Travel days are the 17th and the 21st. I realize there are inherent issues with spending three days surrounded by thousands…
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Blog tagging
by tmangan • January 4, 2007 • 3 Comments
I guess this is a status symbol: getting an e-mail saying “you’ve been blog-tagged” and instructing you to write five things nobody knows about you, and to blog-tag five more people. Like a chain letter without the threats of seven…
More links than you can shake a Leki at
by tmangan • December 29, 2006 • 1 Comment
All sorts of captivating links have been piling up in my RSS reader. Let’s get to ’em. Gear Wildebeat checks out great gear of ’06 reviewed at backpackgeartest.org. The Goat points to overshoes for your ankle cast. Winehiker outlines optional…
What a blogger wants for Christmas
by tmangan • December 25, 2006 • 9 Comments
Feedback. Validation. Support. Engagement. (And oddly enough, giving these things tends to cause one to receive them).
Help Little Po’s fund-raising climb
by tmangan • December 24, 2006 • 1 Comment
Szu-Ting Yi, aka Little Po, is climbing Grand Teton next summer through a program that raises money to get inner-city youth out into the wilderness. She needs to raise $3,500. As long as the Christmas Spirit is in you, you…
Climb_CA is a daddy (again)!
by tmangan • December 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Ebomb over at GoBlog breaks the news, then (as predictable as the Seattle rains in December) he launches into tirade No. 4375 against The North Face’s latest marketing follies. Not much Christmas spirit in that guy. Climb_CA (who blogs under…
Another one catches the bug
by tmangan • December 18, 2006 • 0 Comments
Cynthia Leeder e-mailed applauding my posts at Busy Being Born and pointed out she’s has caught the hiking/picture-taking/posting-it-on-the-Web bug. A page of her Bay Area hikes is here. Cynthia says she’s only recently gotten into the whole walking-on-dirt thing but…
Another American walking in Japan
by tmangan • December 13, 2006 • 1 Comment
Bastish.net shared a link to a well-done blog called Laughing Knees, whose author is an American teaching English at a Japanese university. His posts are prose one day, verse the next, always with cool photography of the Japanese countryside. Good…
A So-Cal hiker’s blog
by tmangan • December 7, 2006 • 1 Comment
The Obligatory belongs to a guy I bumped into while noodling around at flickr.com (here’s his photostream.) He has a bunch of write-ups and pix from Southern California outings. A snippet: I got nothin’ against slow hikers. Most of the…