Hiker Hell posts a Hiker What the Heck? Park rangers are seeking information on a tent left well-stocked near the Twin Lakes area of Sequoia National Park, California. The campsite contains gear, food supplies, but no information on the owner.…
Blogs
A few nice outdoors blogs
by tom • November 25, 2008 • 1 Comment
A few folks recommended these in the comments and they deserve front-page coverage (not local but cool enough to compensate): Camera Trap Codger: This is a guy who puts out camera traps in the wilderness and catches critters in the…
10 most-popular Two-Heel Drive posts
by tom • November 25, 2008 • 2 Comments
As of right now, these are the most popular Two-Heel Drive posts since I started counting in the summer of 2007. Since two-thirds of my visitors are Googlers, the results offer hints on how search engines match surfers with links.…
Mass link payback
by tom • November 17, 2008 • 13 Comments
Ever so often I get around to updating my list of “A-List Hiking Bloggers” over there on the right-hand side. I’ve added a bunch in the past few days — if yours isn’t there or you know of another hiker’s…
Oakland hiker’s blog: Dilettante
by tom • November 17, 2008 • 5 Comments
Rebecca Bond is a graphic artist with a get-out-under-the-trees bent. Just last Friday she was haunting Redwood Regional Park, one of the few big Bay Area parks I have yet to check out. Starting out on a ridge at the…
Nice local blog: Bay Area Outdoors and Beyond
by tom • November 4, 2008 • 4 Comments
Dave Miller has been sending GPS/Google maps of his Northern California hikes to Backpacker magazine for some time, but his blog has been around only since July ’08. The most recent post is a gem: he goes to Cloud’s Rest…
The case for starting your own hiking blog
by tom • October 28, 2008
Why start a hiking blog? Three years ago, when Two-Heel Drive was born, the question had had scarcely been asked, much less answered — perhaps because up until then, hikers did not blog and bloggers did not hike. Related: How…
We’re No. 24 on somebody’s list of top 100 men’s health blogs
by tom • October 23, 2008 • 1 Comment
I just love that this was posted at a site called Massage Therapy Careers. A list-happy writer named Christina Laun compiled an impressive sub-category of another place we showed up in 2007: Top 100 Health and Wellness Blogs. From the…
Interesting site: campingblogger.net
by tom • October 21, 2008 • 2 Comments
A Silicon Valley techie/family guy named Roy Scribner been blogging about camping for the past couple years. He’s mainly the tow-behind-the-SUV-camper type because he got a lifetime’s worth of sleeping on the ground during the army paratrooper phase of his…