Rebecca did an overnighter at 10 Lakes Basin in Yosemite. The place is heaven for shutterbugs, no doubt about it. I keep thinking I’m going to work up the energy to head up to the mountains for a weekender or…
Sanborn Skyline County Park
Latest hike: Sanborn Skyline County Park
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 4 Comments
Just a shady walk through the hills of a county park I hadn’t been to before. Sanborn Skyline is off Highway 9 west of Saratoga — nestled, as we love to say in the news biz — in the woods…
Mangan's memoirs
I been Google-ized
by tmangan • June 24, 2007 • 3 Comments
Stop the presses, a decade after Google Adwords were invented, they’ve been added to my Web site. Hey, I just wanted to make sure the program had legs, know what I mean? At the going rate I’ll probably make a…
Gear
Freezerbag bargain bin
by tmangan • June 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
Sarah offers stuff on sale in a new page at her site.
Pacific Crest Trail, Through-hiking
Catra’s not giving up
by tmangan • June 22, 2007 • 0 Comments
The many-tattooed, multiply-pierced PCT thru-hiker concedes she won’t break the speed record she was shooting for, but she’s still down for the whole 2600 miles: I talked to Tattoo Joe and we both know we won’t be able to get…
Hikes of the world
Legendary British resolve in the wilds of Corsica
by tmangan • June 22, 2007 • 0 Comments
Travel writer Holden Frith of the Times Online of London has a scratchin’ good time on a five-day hike in Napoleon’s homeland. The path splits into a few alternative routes on day three, which means that some of the tracks…
Media (books, DVDs, etc)
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…
Hikes of the world
Japan Alps profiled
by tmangan • June 22, 2007 • 0 Comments
Japan Times describes a hike to the high country: For most visitors, picnicking under the soft green larch trees beside the rushing waters of the Azusa River or having their photograph taken at the famed Kappa Bridge is about as…
Blogs
Fedak’s Arizona vacation
by tmangan • June 22, 2007 • 1 Comment
Here’s a guy who razzes me for taking hot summer hikes and he’s out in June in the Arizona desert. One thing about that kind of heat, though: you know what you’re in for.