From the Santa Cruz Sentinel: An evening bike ride in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park turned perilous for a local couple Monday when the woman rode off an 80-foot cliff and her husband plummeted nearly as far trying…
In the news
Fire news blog
by tmangan • August 30, 2007 • 1 Comment
California Fire News could use a visual-appeal consultant, but the content’s there. Has tons of news headlines and weather reports (still in all-caps, the way the National Weather Service likes it).
John Muir Trail, Through-hiking
Calipidder’s JMT report
by tmangan • August 29, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rebecca of Calipidder.com was finishing her John Muir Trail trek just as I was gearing up for the White Mountain Adventure. She now has several days of words and pictures posted, starting with this introduction, which includes links to each…
Hiking
Hiking to fight cancer
by tmangan • August 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
Hike for Discovery is a fund-raising arm of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society that combines adventures with raising awareness and research dollars. A co-worker of mine did a Grand Canyon hike with the group a few years back. Here’s a…
Photography
Beth in Berkeley’s vacation pics
by tmangan • August 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
She and her tribe — Dad plus four young-uns — had some good fun camping at Lassen Volcanic National Park last week. Pictures here. Beth’s pics prove conclusively that if you’ve got kids, you’ve got a huge leg up on…
Tom's travels
4WheelBob describes his epic hike
by tmangan • August 27, 2007 • 4 Comments
Bob Coomber shares the gritty details in a forum at Backpacker.com: I’d been told by the team that once onto the final switchbacks it got flatter and easier. I was completely demoralized, once there, to find the opposite. The rocks…
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Favorite images from our White Mountain adventure
by tmangan • August 26, 2007 • 6 Comments
If you’re too busy to check out all 48 pictures posted at Flickr.com, I’m posting some of the faves. At some point I may post an in-depth narrative of all the fun and games, but I’d just as soon avoid…
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4WheelBob’s White Mountain summit, at a glance
by tmangan • August 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
UPDATE: Photo slide show posted at Flickr.com The facts: On Friday, Bob Coomber completed a 5.5-mile hike lasting 20 hours over three days on the rocky, rutted Jeep road to the top of White Mountain, the first known wheelchair summit…
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Bob did it!
by tmangan • August 25, 2007 • 2 Comments
Bob Coomber, AKA 4WheelBob, summitted White Mountain last night as the sun set on the High Sierra. I’m posting from the Super 8 in Bishop so I have to dash… it’s a six-hour drive back to San Jose, and I’m…