Everybody hikes the Upper Peninsula, from what I hear, but you hear less about the little islands of Lake Michigan. A writer in the Flint, Mich., Journal, describes a weekend backpacking trip on Manitou Island: Well, I could talk about…
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Across the Sierra
by tmangan • October 13, 2006 • 0 Comments
The Our Hike gals were in Auburn, CA, in the Sierra foothills the other day. The day before they met a real live cowboy in the hills: Our morning started out having coffee with Cowboy Ed and talking about what…
Cutting it close
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
Those Our Hike gals are just outside of Lake Tahoe (4100-plus miles and counting!) and will be crossing the Sierra in a couple days — just in time for the light rains hitting the Bay Area today to turn into…
Travels with Buddha
by tmangan • October 3, 2006 • 1 Comment
She’s this young woman traveling in China/Tibet/Bhutan who writes these breezily hilarious Trail Journals posts. Her soon to be hubby is named Zack. Their current travels are a hoot … check ’em out.
Back in the hills nearby
by tmangan • October 2, 2006 • 1 Comment
Summer flew the coop while we were wandering around in southern Utah. The weather was cool all week; it was overcast all day Saturday and Sunday dawned much the same. The breeze felt like October, which was convenient, given that…
Easy hikes in Southern Utah
by tmangan • September 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Sight-seeing, road-tripping and picture-taking were the main ideas behind last week’s vacation, but I did get a few hikes in. Until this summer, foot, knee and back troubles had kept Melissa, my wife, off the trails, but she was determined…
Why the coast is priceless
by tmangan • September 12, 2006 • 0 Comments
"Is there ANYPLACE else on earth you’d want to be right now?" The guy’s breathing heavy with a look of orgiastic bliss on his face. As far as I know he has not just successfully seduced Eva Longoria, but you…
A creek to fall for
by tmangan • September 10, 2006 • 2 Comments
There used to be a limestone quarry here. Then somebody found a better way to extract lime from the stone and the site fell into ruin. The guy who started the quarry cut down most of the trees and laid…
Warm thoughts of Henry Coe
by tmangan • August 27, 2006 • 3 Comments
Back to the dirt paths this week. I tempted fate and revisited Henry Coe State Park almost a year to the day after an ill-advised trek up the steepest trail in the park under a blazing, north of 95-degree sun.…