Let’s see what the blog roll turned up: Outdoor Sports Blog links to an excellent Anchorage Daily News story about a snowshoer who died in an avalanche; the story restates the meme that a little avalanche knowledge is a dangerous…
Blogs
A little blogroll with your coffee
by tmangan • February 10, 2006 • 0 Comments
GoBlog’s been posting up a storm of late. One can’t-miss gear item: heated ski gloves. (Comment: if you’re fingers are that cold, you need to be wearing mittens.) WildeBeat talks about wilderness first aid this week. Outdoor Sports Blog reminds…
Ramblin’ with the Gambolin’ Man
by tmangan • February 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Gambolin’ Man posts another stream-of-consciousness meditation on a recent hike, this one to the Wildcat Creek Watershed in the East Bay hills. I liked his account of a golden eagle’s lunch. At first, I was puzzled by the odd almost…
Let there be links
by tmangan • February 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Links kept happening while I was off camping. Let’s take a look: Hike write-ups The “Our HIke” gals have their first 38.5 miles behind them. Only like 3,000 more to go as the crow flies (I’m betting they wish they…
Beyond cool … downright chilly in fact
by tmangan • February 3, 2006 • 3 Comments
Josh Wilkins’ Simplehiker site is back up and running on a new publishing platform. Just in time for your next blizzard, he has a link to igloo-building instructions. Josh has a hankering to go snow-camping, which is what I’ll be…
A few more links
by tmangan • February 2, 2006 • 1 Comment
GoBlog can’t get enough of piling on REI (turns out most of their catalogs aren’t on recycled paper. The Nerve of those Bastards!) Justin has caved to his gear jones. Dan Mitchell, who has lived in San Jose since Nixon…
Remember the “Our Hike” gals?
by tmangan • February 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
They’re leaving tomorrow for the East Coast. Then today we had even more practice! What an experience. I started out the morning with a couple of early radio-phone interviews. Then mom and I headed to the Wiouwash trailhead at the…
Casting URLs before swine
by tmangan • February 1, 2006 • 4 Comments
In the interest of Google sending a few pig farmers our way (who will no doubt say, “sure, I walk through mud and feces all the time but it’s not my idea of recreation” ), I offer today’s links, some…
Enough URLs to make you hurl
by tmangan • January 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
We’re swimming in links today, so let’s get at ’em. Creatures featured Don’s Musings remarks upon a vist to a wolf sanctuary in Washington State. Don’t miss the howling video (dogs in our neighborhood do the same thing: one starts…