Black Mountain, Monte Bello Ridge OSP in Palo Alto, originally uploaded by bubbletea1. The last couple years I’ve done a First Day Hike with Mike Wimble and his wife, Kathy, and their hiking group (called FOMFOK, for Friends of Mike,…
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Trailcraft blog launched
by tmangan • December 5, 2006 • 1 Comment
Russ Whitney of hikingideas.com introduces Wilderness Trailcraft. He dropped me an e-mail yesterday saying Dan Mitchell and I had inspired him to join the blogging masses. Mind you we’ll be the ones to blame when his trail buddies have to…
Sites worth a look
by tmangan • December 2, 2006 • 1 Comment
A few more I’ve happened upon in recent days: Summit Stones has a bunch of cool outdoor pictures and dreamy commentary from DSD, who has posted a few comments on the ol’ blog of late. Wild Wilderness Blog belongs to…
Outdoozy revisited
by tmangan • December 2, 2006 • 2 Comments
OK, so some of us have gone over and signed up at Outdoorzy.com — Dan Mitchell, Outdoors Pro, Winehiker, Rick McCharles — now I need you guys to go back over there at least one more time and add each…
Gettin’ Outdoorzy
by tmangan • November 28, 2006 • 2 Comments
What if everything you can do on land, sea and air were all covered by the same Web site? Would you wear a hole in your mouse pad checking it out? Well, now you have a chance with Outdoorzy.com, which…
RSS feed upgrade
by tmangan • November 27, 2006 • 0 Comments
Russ Whitney of Hiking Ideas kindly informed me that my Flickr pix weren’t showing up in his RSS feed. To fix the glitch, I had to tweak a template for my feeds allowing them to display full entries rather than…
We’re No. 8
by tmangan • November 18, 2006 • 7 Comments
According to the blog of Base Camp Communications, a PR agency for outdoors companies. Base Camp’s rankings: The Piton – Well-connected industry insiders slinging velvet-tipped stones near and far. The broad sweep of their BS radar has marketing execs and…
Why it’s good to be named Tom
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Because yet another of us has an outdoors blog. Here’s one called Out There With Tom, by Tom Kotynski, a retired associate editor with the Great Falls Tribune. It’s all snowy in the Montana peaks these days so he’s talking…
A few notable blog entries
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Dirt Diva, a class of 2006 Appalachian Trail hiker, posts her final entries, which include many fine images from the three seasons she encountered. Her comments on summer sound more like a warning: Summer seemed to last forever. The spring…