Tree Huggers in Training is Bay Area based (natch), with tips on places to take the littlest tykes along. Dana and Beth, the blog’s proprietors, have hiked a few familiar places — Coyote Hills and Tilden Park, for instance —…
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Nice blog: Nature for Kids
by tom • April 23, 2008 • 1 Comment
Nature for Kids is the product of a young family in Utah — mom, dad, three little kids — who are getting their kids outdoors in a big way. The current post includes toddler rock climbing. Also: A two-part series…
Blog: guilt-tripping white folks need to give it a rest
by tom • April 22, 2008 • 5 Comments
I love it when a blog confirms my prejudices, such as this one: Stuff White People Like, whose ninth post is “Making you feel bad about not going outside.” White people love to be outside. But not everyone knows that…
Link-athon
by tom • April 18, 2008 • 3 Comments
I haven’t done this in ages, and nobody has complained, but what the heck, let’s have a round-up of what’s happening in the outdoor blogosphere. On the local scene: Calipidder’s redesign puts a pretty wrapper on many impressive improvements at…
Cool tool: PictoBrowser
by tom • April 11, 2008 • 5 Comments
It allows creation of photo slide shows from Flickr pictures. For instance, here’s an album of wildflower pics I created the other day: Here’s my Carrizo Plain album: Nifty, eh? Link here.
How readable am I?
by tom • March 21, 2008 • 6 Comments
Geeze, all I ever wanted in life was to get away from high school. Go here to see where you rate. Hat tip to GoBlog for this one.
A bunch more “Scared Indoors” links
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 0 Comments
Steve amassed a list of links to discussions about his “Scared Indoors” series of podcasts. Check it out.
Link payback to Rocky at The Goat
by tom • February 29, 2008 • 9 Comments
If you’re a gear hound, you’re probably already one of Rocky Thompson’s devoted readers. If not, the back story: Rocky’s the guy Backcountry.com brought in to be the company’s tell-it-like-it-is gear blogger. I have no idea what they’re paying him,…
Gambolin Man at Point Reyes
by tom • February 26, 2008 • 0 Comments
Tom had a nice walk the other day from the Bear Valley Visitors Center. In all honesty, I’m totally blown away by this hike, the land that it goes through, where it ends up. Although flat and easy, and no…