I added this to my rail awhile back to see if anybody actually noticed it. A couple people have signed up so, what the heck, if you’d like the folks at Feedburner to send you an e-mail every time I…
Tom’s travels
Laughable Google Maps route
by tom • May 26, 2009 • 5 Comments
Check this out: Google Maps lists this as an alternate route to the Dowdy Ranch entrance to Henry Coe State Park: View Larger Map Those roads are definitely on the map, but there’s no way to drive through them unless…
E-commerce update
by tom • May 25, 2009 • 2 Comments
Your friends and fellow hikers bought 10 items from Amazon.com in the past week. Interestingly, only three were things I thought folks might be interested in buying; the rest were all other stuff folks decided they liked better after they…
Two-Heel Drive store upgraded
by tom • May 17, 2009 • 3 Comments
I’ve spent the last few days adding tons of books, DVDs and gear that should earn me a solid $12.97 by year’s end. The subzero correlation between effort and revenue is much like hiking itself, so it’s kinda-sorta appropriate. My…
On vacation this week
by tom • May 12, 2009 • 1 Comment
Had a little family emergency that had to be attended to over the past few days, but things are back in order now, which brings me to: I’m on vacation from the paper mill this week so I’ll try to…
What I’m doing today
by tom • May 10, 2009 • 1 Comment
UPDATE: Star hike didn’t happen; life intervened. But there’ll be other full moons. Star Trek this morning, star hike tonight (Mission Peak in the moonlight revisited.)
Taking hike requests
by tom • April 29, 2009 • 2 Comments
You know how when you call in to the radio station and ask for a song they were going to play anyway and then they say “this one requested by Cletus from Toadsuck Ferry” … it’s kinda like that only…
Just past the 2,000th post
by tom • April 29, 2009 • 9 Comments
Who’d a thunk there was so much to say about hiking? Lately it occurs to me there still is not a be-all and end-all site for hikers, no Facebook for dirtwalkers. There are sites about gear, sites for talking about…
Egads, summer’s gone and what did I accomplish?
by tom • October 7, 2008 • 6 Comments
Cool hiking-related stuff I did in summers past: 2007: Tagged along on 4WheelBob’s White Mountain conquest 2006: Vacationed at Zion/Bryce/Grand Canyon in Southern Utah. Went on overnighters to Tahoe National Forest and Emigrant Wilderness. Took Steve Sergeant’s lightweight backpacking course.…