National Parks Traveler notes that a pollution advisory has been issued. Well, today comes word that pollution levels at Mammoth Cave are so bad the superintendent has warned park visitors. Levels of ozone and particulate pollution at the park are…
Trails
More Trails Day stuff
by tmangan • May 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
This time: Puget Sound fun in the Tacoma area. And more stuff from Joe Miller at the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer.
Just remembered: It’s Trail Days time
by tmangan • May 16, 2007 • 1 Comment
Grimy throngs are beginning to converge on Damascus, Va., this week for Trail Days, which begin Friday. Here’s a profile of Damascus from Americanprofile.com. Plenty has changed in Trail Town USA since Patrick started selling outdoor gear 16 years ago.…
A fine day at Henry Coe
by tmangan • May 13, 2007 • 1 Comment
Every year around Mother’s Day, Mike and Kathy take their hiking club out to Henry Coe State Park, where wildflowers tend to still be in bloom and the weather’s pleasant enough that the park’s hills can be survived without keeping…
Trails near Rainier in rough shape
by tmangan • May 10, 2007 • 0 Comments
Karen Sykes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an update on the beatings trails have taken in the Cascades. Especially hard hit are trails in the area known as The Mountain Loop, between Darrington and Granite Falls. The Darrington Ranger District…
Long Ridge revisited
by tmangan • May 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
Skyline Boulevard in the Santa Cruz Mountains is the Great White (well, green) Way for South Bay folks who like to get out of the house on a sunny Sunday. Hikers, bikers, Harley riders, runners and crotch-rocketeers all find something…
Want some West Texas wilderness?
by tmangan • May 3, 2007 • 0 Comments
Try Big Bend Ranch State Park, where efforts are afoot to get more visitors to stop by. It’s all part of a larger effort to make this sprawling but largely unused West Texas park more accessible to the public without…
Calero revisited
by tmangan • April 29, 2007 • 0 Comments
“It was a great six-mile hike. Unfortunately, we had to hike 10.” M. Wimble, FOMFOK That’s one of Mike’s favorite descriptions of outings in which the accumulation of miles manages to drain most of the fun out of a walk…
Some folks have their Crackberries…
by tmangan • April 26, 2007 • 2 Comments
… I have Trail Journals. How heavy is my Monkey? Well, I just read the journal of a woman who did the Skyline-to-the-Sea trail, a mere 30something miles covered in a long weekend. It’s a hike all the Bay Area…