My beloved Mercury News is not one to pile on or anything, but this morning’s edition does have one more update on the couple lost for five days: a point-by-point recitation of everything they did wrong. Oddly enough, the story…
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Lost Bay Area hikers talk to the press
by tmangan • December 3, 2006 • 1 Comment
As usual, the simplest explanation is the most likely: They hiked down a steep ravine full of thick brush and lost the trail in the dark. The terrain was too steep and the brush too thick to find their way…
More on flooding at Mt. Rainier
by tmangan • December 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Karen Sykes of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went to see how bad the recent rains had damaged Mount Rainier National Park. From the entrance, the first mile or so of road is in good shape, as if nothing had happened. The…
Lost Bay Area hikers found
by tmangan • November 30, 2006 • 8 Comments
A couple of South Bay folks got a good scare in the form of five frigid nights at Castle Rock State Park. Seems they set out late Saturday afternoon and got lost in the dark, then for reasons still unclear…
Lost (and found) hiker interview
by tmangan • November 22, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s an mp3 of an interview with Cindy Wysocki, the woman rescued the other day after two nights in the woods in the northern Cascades. (link via WTA Blog). Three main points emerge from the interview, beyond the obvious about…
Lost snowshoer found
by tmangan • November 21, 2006 • 1 Comment
Washington Trails Association comments on the welcome news that a woman was found after spending two nights in the woods. It also underscores an important point: fall and winter hiking in the mountains is much riskier than in summer. Always…
Passing of a hiker’s hiker
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 0 Comments
Washington Trail Association blog writes about guidebook author and conservationist Harvey Manning, who died over the weekend. His style could be abrasive, but his tenacity and his insistence that hikers become active conservationists led to many lands in Washington being…
Floods pound Glacier
by tmangan • November 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
Glacier National Park has been hit pretty hard by flooding on Tuesday, National Parks Traveler reports. From a Great Falls Tribune report on the flooding. Floodwaters from a freak November rainstorm swept away a large chunk of the famous Going-to-the-Sun…
Great news for wildlife lovers
by tmangan • November 8, 2006 • 1 Comment
Richard Pombo will be leaving the United States House of Representatives. The Washington Post ranked Pombo’s campaign among the 10 worst-run incumbent campaigns in the country, and the Tracy rancher faced a last-minute onslaught of campaigning by well-financed environmental groups…