Sarah at Freezerbagcooking recommends TVP: TVP stands for Textured Vegetable Protein, an affordable and easy to use high protein substitute for meat. It is vegetarian and vegan, heart healthy and most important? It is shelf stable till you prepare it.…
Gear
Buying a GPS unit for hiking
by tmangan • May 1, 2007 • 4 Comments
A thread at Ask Metafilter offers advice on buying a GPS. Among the responses: Just as general advice, I got my first GPS unit last December, and I recommend that you get yours used off eBay. The older models still…
In the news
First Lady at Zion
by tmangan • May 1, 2007 • 2 Comments
Laura Bush and her entourage showed up in southern Utah the other day; word is they’ll be spending most of the week in the park. One guest – who only identified himself as “John” – said he and a friend…
Hikes of the world
Fuji by night
by tmangan • April 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
Fitness
Got some aches and pains?
by tmangan • April 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
Maybe you need the Chinese Suction Treatment.
Wildlife
Why no work’s getting done at San Jose City Hall this week
by tmangan • April 30, 2007 • 3 Comments
Everybody’s watching the Falcon Cam! The falcons are a nesting pair named Jose and Clara, and they’ve just had new babies hatch over the weekend. The last time I looked, one of the parents was wiggling and nudging the brood…
Calero County Park
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…
Blogs
Quotes of the day
by tmangan • April 27, 2007 • 5 Comments
From As the Crow Flies:
Blogs
Yes Trespassing
by tmangan • April 27, 2007 • 0 Comments
Andy Howell commemorates the Kinder Trespass, in which a group of working people staged a 1932 mass protest demanding their right to walk in the countryside. They walked on land belonging to an aristocrat who insisted five of them go…