His new site is called backpackingvideos.com and it already has a few nifty videos posted. Jason is the creator of the handy and popular Homemade Backpacking Gear site. Jason’s on-cam presence is pretty solid for a beginner, and his video…
Fitness
Another hiking weight-loss success story
by tmangan • May 30, 2007 • 3 Comments
Fresno Bee’s outdoors writer profiles a hiker who lost 70 pounds. Each time we met, I learned more about her. How Ordway grew up in rural Tennessee. How she moved to Fresno and ballooned in weight. How she lost nearly…
Blogs
A news feed for Scouting types
by tmangan • May 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
Scoutmaster Clark has the dirt, including tips for getting in on all the RSS fun the rest of us are having.
Wildlife
Will dive for food
by tmangan • May 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
Another priceless animal video: a white tiger that will plunge under water for scraps of meat. Hat tip to Go Blog, where Climb_Ca, in a blog bonding ritual with Ebomb, has ridiculed the Bombster’s news judgment and questioned his grasp…
Pacific Crest Trail, Through-hiking
Ultra-runner aims to break 78-day PCT record
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 3 Comments
Catra Corbett of Fremont, CA, (my first California locale) plans to set a new record for thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. She has wacky hair, enough body art to fill a New York gallery and a shoe contract that got…
Pacific Crest Trail, Through-hiking
A Crow sighting
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 0 Comments
A reporter with the Riverside Press-Enterprise tags along with Ray Clark, a PCT thru-hiker who goes by the trail name Sole to Soul. He met Pat, AKA Crow, along the way: In the morning, Clark came upon Pat Pieper, a…
In the news
Nomination for most unfortunate past-tense use “hump”
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 1 Comment
Tough guy/Iraq veteran/cop rescuer totes 47-year-old woman to safety after she fractured her ankle on a remote trail in North Jerseys’ Ramapo Reservation. Tapia, 28, had to negotiate rocks, skirt fallen trees, and wade through water, with the injured woman…
Gear
Wow, a snow snorkel
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 1 Comment
Appropriate, now that the snow season’s pretty much over: I happened upon a link to the Black Diamond Avalung, which allows people trapped in avalanches to breathe by taking air from the surrounding snow and rerouting exhaled air somewhere else.…
Appalachian Trail, Through-hiking
A fine Appalachian Trail blog
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 5 Comments
Alert reader Jeremiah Kemper pointed me to Ben and Lauren’s 2007 Adventure. Their latest post is from Erwin, Tennessee (mile 338.7), so there’s lots more hiking — and, more importantly, blogging — to go as they travel north. I found…