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Happy Birthday to Two-Heel Drive
by tmangan • October 28, 2006 • 9 Comments
Well, those Our Hike gals splashed in the waters of the Pacific Ocean yesterday, meaning they’ve completed their coast to coast hike of the American Discovery Trail. It was an auspicious date, coming on the one-year anniversary of the birth…
All about the walk
by tmangan • October 12, 2006 • 1 Comment
Walktopia is a nice blog I happened upon this morning. Not precisely a “walking in the woods” site but everybody’s gotta start somewhere.
Ho Down 2006 clean-up
by tmangan • October 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
Last post on 2006 stuff, I promise. For bookkeeping purposes, here’s one last list of Ho Down-related links: Fedak’s pix here. LittlePo’s write-up here. GoBlog write-up here. BestHikes post here. Many more of Rick’s pix here. Winehiker Russ’s write-up here.…
Industry & gear blog
by tmangan • October 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
Outdoor Gear Engine Blog has been added to the RSS feed. These days I’m trying as hard not to buy gear as I was trying to acquire it awhile back, but anyway: This blog has a bunch of posts about…
One more Ho Down post …
by tmangan • October 10, 2006 • 2 Comments
… and I’ll give it a rest for awhile. I just wanted to provide quick impressions of the people I met over the weekend. Climb_CA: Much nicer in person. Tall and buff, able to scale impossible rock scrambles on no…
So long, Shasta; Hello, Damascus
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
The weekend after Mother’s Day is Trail Days 2007 in Damascus, Virginia. I’ve made up my mind I’m going. Rick of Best Hikes has the dates — May 18, 19, 20 — penciled it in, and Cutter says he can…
Images from the Ho down
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 4 Comments
We drove, we drank, we hiked, we dined. We slept under a stupendous autumn moon, snacked at the foot an immense exctinct volcano. Good times, as Winehiker Russ put it. With no further ado, here are my pictures from the…
The Ho Down scoop
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
Tom of Trout Underground has posted a couple pictures from our weekend outing near Mount Shasta. Heres’ one post. Here’s another. I’m busy unpacking and restowing gear but I’ll try to get some pictures posted this morning.