GoBlog gave me a shout-out to attend Winter Trail Days, which includes free clinics on showshoeing and cross-country skiing in various winter-sports meccas around the country. I’m flattered (and tempted) but I’m also recovering from spending the last 18 months…

Read the whole thing

GoBlog points to one option: hut-to-hutting in the high Sierra. I’m still in my “snow is why houses and fireplaces were invented” frame of mind, but I realize others actually like getting out into it.

I found this email in this morning’s inbox. Hi Tom, My name is Maya and I wanted to introduce to you our hiking forum: http://www.hikingforums.net/. As a hiking enthusiastic, I am trying to set up a hiking community, which, hopefully…

Read the whole thing

Let’s have us some linkage: Simplehiker warns of taking way too much Tylenol. My conclusion: if you need that much pain relief you need a less arduous hobby, like knitting. Hikerdude tells how to hang your bear bag via the…

Read the whole thing

WildeBeat craves feedback. Please send Steve some love, it’s lonesome out here in the blogosphere. Trailcast interviews a guy who’s hiking the Triple Crown in one year. That is, the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails. I’m thinking there…

Read the whole thing

Blackpacker has an excellent list of ways to stay clean in the outdoors (and yes, there is a section on defecation. That’s why this one goes first). UT Outdoors gets down into another of those skinny little canyons. Them boys…

Read the whole thing

Recent updates at favored blogs: Arun in India went birding. His pix are amazing. Airplane Journal took an astoundingly long hike at Big Basin State Park. His pix are pretty fine, too. GoBlog highlights a wonderful device for those of…

Read the whole thing

Gambolin Man waxes effusively on the charms of Coyote Hills Regional Park, which sits on the edge of the San Francisco Bay just west of Fremont. The Gamboleer notes that he’s lived in the Bay Area for ages but is…

Read the whole thing