One of the first blogs I ever linked from here is called The Great Out of Doors, and its proprietor promptly stopped posting a couple weeks later. After a six-month break, a fesh post appears at the blog — an…
Hiking
On calling for help
by tmangan • April 14, 2006 • 0 Comments
Steve’s latest WildeBeat is on trying to contact people in the backcountry. He notes that a whistle has limited range, but might be better than a cellphone most of the time. He also gives a quick intro to ham radio.
This just in: The Footwear Fallacy
by tmangan • April 12, 2006 • 1 Comment
From The Olympian of Olympia, Wash. The Footwear Fallacy posits that one must have a change of shoes for every possible activity. As with all fallacies, it rests on a certain reasonable logic. Climbing boots such as the type worn…
Here’s the poop
by tmangan • April 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
This morning’s link crawling unearthed Hikers Against Doo-Doo. Among the group’s goals: HADD serves as a clearinghouse for time-tested and innovative methods for the collection, transport, or safe processing of human and domesticated animal waste. If there are any biotech…
Shelter? I got your shelter
by tmangan • April 7, 2006 • 2 Comments
My fool’s errand to become a lightweight backpacker is doing wonderful things for my G.A.D. (Gear Acquisition Disorder). I bought a 5×8 tarp several weeks back, immediately realized it was way too small for riding out a High Sierra deluge,…
Skurka in Bozeman
by tmangan • March 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Andrew Skurka‘s still making the rounds, talking about his coast to coast hike. The Billings Gazette has a nice writeup up his adventure and includes the obligatory Ryan Jordan quotes. “Andy was really the first person to bring a winter…
At the Pole
by tmangan • March 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Those two guys who left for the North Pole back in January with nothing but themselves, their skis and sleds carrying two months worth of food got there the other day. These guys are tough guys in every sense of…
It’s OK to day hike, we promise
by tmangan • March 24, 2006 • 2 Comments
Andy Howell ponders the decline of walking for days on end (which sounds downright sane when put that way): One of the more interesting conversation that I had at the Outdoor Show was with Paul Davis, of hike-lite.co.uk. We talked…
More canyon escapades
by tmangan • March 22, 2006 • 0 Comments
UT Outdoors has another of those slithering-through-cracks-in-the-earth videos that give me the willies. And speaking of slot-canyoneering, Wicked Outdoorsy notes that Aron Ralston, who had to cut his hand off to escape one, will endorse a line of personal-locator beacons.…