Dem blogging folks is at it again. GoBlog euolgizes the Los Angeles Times Outdoors section and talks up the grizzly bears being off the endangered list. Gadling visits old Jersey. WildeBeat chats up folks who cleaned up a marijuana farm…

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Lots o’ tasty links this morning among my favorite bloggers. At a glance: Calipidder on Backpackgeartest and the Jetboil camp stove. Felix Wong on everthing that’s wrong with Wal-Mart (off-topic and not exactly news, but a very concise summary). GoBlog…

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From the blogroll: Calipidder went snow camping. Jonathan Claxton went to the Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness Dan Mitchell took more swell nature pictures. Felix Wong went trail running in the Rattlesnake Rumble

Found this link to a fine blog called Outdoors Scotland. It’s fine because, you guessed, it contains a link to Two-Heel Drive. And because it has all these Scottishisms — what we call “fanny packs” they call “bumbags,” a term…

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So three of the folks on my list of blogs have linked to posts of mine from the past couple days. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how stuff gets started. Just think: If each of them — plus me —…

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The Great Out of Doors is manned by a guy up in Davis, CA, (that’s near Sacramento) who spends at least a hundred days a year outdoors. And you know what that means: prone to gear lust.

I posted a “check out my hiking blog” note at thebackpacker.com this morning and it didn’t take too long for somebody to say “hey, I got one of those.” The blog in question belongs to Gem, a young woman in…

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One of the reasons for me starting this blog is that nobody else had done it already. I sorta wish they had; it would’ve saved me the trouble. While I was developing this site I did find a few blogs…

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