B-Real down in Orange County created this running tab of hiker misfortune last month, thoughtfully saving me the trouble of doing the same. Just yesterday he scooped the pants off us Bay Area types with this update on a woman…
Blogs
Site worth a visit: Natural Born Hikers
by tom • July 11, 2008 • 1 Comment
Alert reader Ann L. sends along this link: Natural Born Hikers. The site has been around for ages and is updated in a whenever-the-get-around-to manner which suggests they prize hiking over goofing off online. I always respect qualities in other…
Nice lightweight-backing blog: Brett on Stuff
by tom • July 3, 2008 • 1 Comment
Brett does most of his hiking in the Pacific Northwest but he has been known to haunt the higher elevations of California. Check out the post count on each of these categories at his blog: Food Reviews (6) Gear Reviews…
Site tweak-athon
by tom • June 9, 2008 • 8 Comments
I regret to inform that I got no hiking done whatsoever over the weekend … I was too busy getting thrown by the HTML learning curve. Spent all day yesterday figuring out how to make a copy of my site…
Henry Coe backpacking — yet another blog post
by tom • May 30, 2008 • 1 Comment
On a lark I created a Google alert for “Henry Coe” the other day, and it’s unearthed another gem: this one from a guy who calls his blog “Wondering Vet” (Vietnam, not veterinary school). He just got home from a…
Crow will Twitter from the PCT
by tom • May 16, 2008 • 0 Comments
Nobody (except her) knows how Crow can afford to live in a cabin with no apparent means of employment for half the year and spend the other half hiking one of the coolest trails on the planet. We’re just thankful…
Twitter: Resistance is futile
by tom • May 14, 2008 • 5 Comments
Winehiker Russ told me this would happen: Initial resistance overcome by temptation, then adoption. For those who haven’t drunk the Kool-Aid, Twitter is essentially a rolling chatroom that can be updated via web, Crackberry, iPhone and any other implement of…
Overdue blog shout-outs
by tom • May 13, 2008 • 1 Comment
The first goes out to Brittney Gilbert and her Eye On Blogs blog at KPIX, CBS-5. She has dozens of Bay Area blogs to choose from and has thoughtfully concluded that all those TV news-watching couch potatoes need tips on…
The path to a hiker’s heart…
by tom • May 5, 2008 • 2 Comments
… runs through his feet. Another way to say it: all gifts of high-quality hiking socks are gratefully accepted. A few weeks back, Wade at Outdoorzy.com sent me an e-mail saying he had something he’d like to mail to me.…