The Hike Half Dome blog lists a bunch of interesting Yosemite-related happenings at Stanford University at the Cantor Art Center. The main attraction is an exhibit —
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Excellent book: Shadow Divers
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 1 Comment
If you’re into true-adventure sea-faring yarns you can’t go wrong with “Shadow Divers,” a story about hard-core divers who found a sunken German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. The book’s a couple years old — somebody at work…
In praise of Bay Nature
by tmangan • July 28, 2007 • 2 Comments
Awhile back I linked to an article in Bay Nature, a quarterly based in Berkeley, and exchanged a few e-mails with its editor, Dan Rademacher, who offered to send me a copy. I figured what the heck and dashed off…
New guidebook recommendations
by tmangan • June 22, 2007 • 1 Comment
Seattle Times profiles a bunch of Cascades-centric outdoors guides, including: (4.5 stars) “WOW (Wonder of Wilderness) Guides: North Cascades,” by Kathy and Craig Copeland (Wilderness Press, $21.95) The husband-wife team, who in 1996 published “Don’t Waste Your Time in the…