THIS CONTEST IS EXPIRED. KEEN has a new online footwear store and it’s spreading the word by setting up contest giveaways with gullible enterprising outdoors bloggers. What’s in this for me? Not much, but one of you could win the…
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Coming tomorrow: a contest!
by tom • December 4, 2008 • 0 Comments
I’ve been busily working away this morning on a contest that’ll allow a lucky soul to win a product of their choosing at a new outdoor footwear site. It’ll start tomorrow morning and last a week. I usually pass on…
Mountain Hardwear’s coolest new thing: Red Savina Heated Gloves
by tom • December 2, 2008 • 0 Comments
East Bay-based Mountain Hardwear has what must be the niftiest bit of new gear in the pipeline: Red Savina Heated Gloves. They’re more geared to the skiing and snowboarding set but they might be, uh, handy on a snowshoeing outing.…
Bond Gurl’s new URL
by tom • December 1, 2008 • 0 Comments
A quick note: Rebecca Bond’s hiking site has moved to http://rambling.rebeccabond.com/. Bonus eye candy: Rebecca’s pictures from Glacier National Park.
Mystery trail at Pescadero Creek County Park
by tom • December 1, 2008 • 0 Comments
Bruce Schine posted this query to the Hike Reports Page. Trail in Pescadero Creek County Park that isn’t on any trail map. Last weekend we intended to do the Brook’s loop including Jones Gulch in Pescadero Creek County Park. After…
Pretty picture I forgot I had taken
by tom • December 1, 2008 • 0 Comments
Yesterday’s 4WheelBob post had me poking through my photo archives and I came across this one, taken near sunset on the road to White Mountain summit. Just a reminder of how amazing this country looks in the right light. I’m…
Hiking gear gift ideas
by tom • November 28, 2008 • 2 Comments
In honor of Black Friday, here’s a bunch of cool hiking gear I’d give myself for Christmas if I had someplace to put it. I went searching among my favorite boutique gear retailers because I know the stuff is built…
Rare deals on Western Mountaineering gear?
by tom • November 26, 2008 • 3 Comments
The San Jose manufacturer of some of the world’s best sleeping bags sews its product right here in the South Bay rather than somewhere in China, commands Cadillac prices for its wares, and insists that dealers cut very few discounts.…
An idiot’s guide to orienteering
by tom • November 16, 2008 • 6 Comments
You’ve no doubt heard of the pastime of orienteering, in which you dress up in your finest hiking regalia, navigate miles of hairpin-turn mountain roads to an appointed trailhead, hit the trail with maps designed to get you lost, and…