Brave enough to parachute into a rain forest to lend medical aid? Jesse at Treknologies has an idea: In return for your services RAM will offer the adventure of a lifetime. Parachuting into the middle of the rain forest and…
Hiking
Another of those water filter questions
by tmangan • May 2, 2007 • 5 Comments
Joe of The Dude Abides sends greetings, and has a request for suggestions: Hey Tom… Question for you: My First Need water filter bit the dust and I need to get another one. Can you point me in the right…
Buying a GPS unit for hiking
by tmangan • May 1, 2007 • 4 Comments
A thread at Ask Metafilter offers advice on buying a GPS. Among the responses: Just as general advice, I got my first GPS unit last December, and I recommend that you get yours used off eBay. The older models still…
Fuji by night
by tmangan • April 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
Southeastern Hiking Festival trails
by tmangan • April 20, 2007 • 2 Comments
Here’s a list of all the hikes planned over the weekend of May 3-6. The free public festival is all day Saturday, the fifth, in Black Mountain, NC., just down the road from Asheville. I’m thinking we need us one…
Guess where the John Muir’s Birthday Hike is
by tmangan • April 18, 2007 • 0 Comments
Not in California, where if you fall off a long there’s a fair chance you’ll land on something named after Muir. It’s in Madison, Wisconsin. Wisconsin has been home to some of the most visionary environmental thinkers of all time.…
Got Fourteeners on the brain?
by tmangan • April 18, 2007 • 3 Comments
The Denver Post has a nice rundown of how to prepare for hiking Colorado’s high peaks. “Ascending from 5,000 feet to 14,000 feet in one day is dangerous,” DiMartino says. “If you are not used to hiking, do several weeks…
New cozy for munchies at freezerbagcooking.com
by tmangan • April 18, 2007 • 0 Comments
Sarah has a new must-have item for hungry hikers. Made of a mylar infused fabric, they are durable, crushable, packable and machine washable. They are sized to fit 2-3 energy or candy bars-and help with the worst part of summer:…
Nifty alcohol stove report
by tmangan • April 17, 2007 • 0 Comments
If you ever find yourself camping with Steve Sergeant, you can be assured that whatever he plucks from his pack will be the cream of the gear crop — not typically the priciest, probably the lightest, inevitably the coolest. The…