Geared Up Blog links to Five Finger Shoes from Vibram. They’re like little booties that strap over your feet and separate your toes. No idea how long they last, but they look really cool.
Hiking
Links for Northwest hikers
by tmangan • November 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
All you Northwesties who haven’t been there already oughta check out NWHikers.net, which I discovered this morning from a link at the Washington Trails Association blog. Tons o’ discussions, links & such. The forum has a section for links, blogs…
Time and distance calculator
by tmangan • November 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Scoutmaster links to an excellent online tool to calculate how long it should take to finish your hike. The gadget at wotzwot.co.uk builds on the Naismith Rule, which is that the average pace is three miiles per hour, adding an…
More daily discount sites
by tmangan • October 31, 2006 • 2 Comments
Gear & Outdoor Industry Blog reports that Moosejaw and Altrec have gotten on the Deal of the Day bandwagon pioneered by steepandcheap.com. Scroll down to the RSS feeds for each site.
Good for guys, too
by tmangan • October 31, 2006 • 1 Comment
Bella Online, "The Voice of Women," has a hiking and backpacking editor named Jill Florio, who recommends tossing a few emergency rations in her pack. My day hiking X-Rations are usually extra Luna Bars, a few packets of instant oatmeal…
Live from the Minami Alps
by tmangan • October 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Bastish is having some fun backpacking in Japan: Just 20 meters up the trail, over a small hill, the screams continued and my mind raced to connect their chilling echo to something, anything, I have heard in the past –…
Another gear link
by tmangan • October 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
Erika Dillman of Fitness Travel Gear passed a link to her site along, and has added Two-Heel Drive to her links list. The site has reams of reviews of footwear, clothing and such. From a review of some snazzy Salomon…
Latest hiking fiend update
by tmangan • October 25, 2006 • 2 Comments
John Fedak sent this link along from a guy who hiked 45 miles with 8,100-plus elevation gain in one day. An excerpt: After Madulce I headed for Samon. Along the way I filtered water at Chokecherry spring. It was 4:24pm…
Let’s hear it for Japanese hikers
by tmangan • October 20, 2006 • 4 Comments
From a Japan Times story about hiking in the countryside northwest of Tokyo: The fellow passengers on the weekend “holiday special express” from Shinjuku to Okutama or Musashi-Itsukaichi — an hour northwest of Tokyo — are a strange melange: There…