Not literally, but what else is there to say about a guy who has earned all 122 Scouting merit badges? “Bugling was probably one of the most difficult,” said Calderwood, a high school senior. “I’ve never been very musically gifted.…
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Sierra snowpack 50 percent of normal
by tmangan • March 29, 2007 • 1 Comment
Last year it was all about there being too damn much snow in the high country; this year it’s about there not being enough: The California Department of Water Resources conducted its fourth survey of the Sierra snowpack for the…
Slow going at Glacier
by tmangan • March 7, 2007 • 0 Comments
Glacier National Park’s main road is getting fixed up, which should cause delays this summer, National Parks Traveler reports: Now, beginning this summer, and continuing on for the next, oh, eight to ten years, this ride could be a bit…
Tree planting in Utah Scouts’ future
by tmangan • March 7, 2007 • 3 Comments
That’s part of their end of a deal to restore forest lands the Scouts apparently set fire to. A local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has agreed to pay $330,000 and plant 9,000 tree seedlings to settle a…
Arlene Blum interviewed
by tmangan • March 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
Arlene, the first woman to climb Everest, is interviewed on Sierra Club Radio. She talks about getting her start at Denali and trekking across the Himalayas with a small baby and a 50-pound backpack. Her latest book is “Breaking Trail,…
Running across the Sahara
by tmangan • February 21, 2007 • 2 Comments
So we’ve been dutifully tracking Paula Constant’s trek across Africa, with her tales of carrying one’s luggage atop a camel’s hump, avoiding prickly desert flora and fauna, finessing relationships with nomads who’ve traveled the desert since, well, forever I guess.…
Mountain lion victim coming home
by tmangan • February 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
Jim Hamm has a stupendous gash in his scalp, courtesy of the big cat that pounced on him a few weeks back. His wife had to repeatedly hit the cat with a stick before it would let go. Today, after…
Photographer, naturalist dies on Hawaii hike
by tmangan • February 13, 2007 • 0 Comments
David Boynton fell 300 feet from a trail on a steep cliff on the north face of the Miloli’i Valley wall on Kaua’i. Boynton, 61, was born on O’ahu and had been a teacher for 36 years. He was a…
This just in: Topo maps of Mars
by tmangan • February 12, 2007 • 2 Comments
Can’t wait to try out my Gore-Tex on the Red Planet: Scientists using data from the HRSC experiment onboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft have produced the first ‘hiker’s maps’ of Mars. Giving detailed height contours and names of geological features…