The newspaper is tackling the John Muir Trail in four chunks, one of which has just been completed. The blog for the project is here. The folks back in the newsroom were hoping for regular updates but the folks on…
Blogs
A blog for us fogies
by tmangan • August 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
www.sportsgeezer.com belongs to writer/editor Art Jahnke. It’s mostly general health & fitness for over-40 types, but there is a hiking category. Art has a knack for plucking and posting unexpected tidbits, like the fact that watermelon is more nutritious at…
LightBackpacking.com
by tmangan • August 4, 2006 • 0 Comments
Cutter linked to this blog yesterday: LightBackpacking.com. Its author is Bruce Lewis, who lives up north of the Bay Area along the Pacific Coast. Here’s his explanation of why he went light. I grew up in the big suburb city…
Found another hiking blog
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 2 Comments
Hiking L.A. is as it sounds: about hikes near Los Angeles. The author is a playwright, which sounds a bit hoity-toity, but the writeups are straightforward “what we say, where went” accounts. From one entry on a hike at Mount…
Somewhere east of Texas
by tmangan • July 27, 2006 • 0 Comments
From a blog called WhiteCrow Walking, authored by a guy who’s walking all over the United States. The clerk warm up to me slowly as if he finally believes I am whom I say I am. Although I know I’ll…
Crazy from the heat
by tmangan • July 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
Chris Clarke, owner of the Creek Running North blog, went out hiking at Mount Diablo over the weekend, when inland Bay Area temperatures were running from 105 to 115 at the hottest part of the day. He shared this quick…
Fedak’s at it again
by tmangan • July 25, 2006 • 2 Comments
Eleven weeks after busting his right ankle in fine fashion at Yosemite, John Fedak took his first hike over the weekend. Eight miles in hundred-degree heat on the first trip out, that’s the kinda hiker he is.
A couple quick outing reports
by tmangan • July 13, 2006 • 1 Comment
The Dude spent five days scrambling, fishing and camping in wilds of Montana. Many mountain goats visited his campsite: We skeedaddled and left the goats to paw up the ground where we had peed the night before. Yes, they were…
Northeast hiker’s blog
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened across Grog’s Blog this morning. It’s a pretty straightforward “here’s where I went, what I saw” hiking journal that offers ideas for checking trails of New England”s mountainous regions.