Ken Berry has the Web site up for this Maryland hiker hostel. Link here. For 30 bucks a night you get: Climate controlled bunk room Linens (sheets, blanket, towel, washcloth, pillow) Hot Shower (soap/shampoo supplied) Laundry (detergent supplied) High Speed…
Backpacking
How about that birch
by tmangan • April 12, 2007 • 1 Comment
Didn’t take long for my scan of AktoMan’s links to turn up something nifty. A blogger who calls himself American Bushman notes the many uses of birch bark: Birch is an especially handy tree as it can be used for…
Tom's travels
Somebody’s gonna pay me to write about this stuff
by tmangan • April 11, 2007 • 4 Comments
About a month ago it occurred to me that all the hikes I’ve been writing about at my homepage might constitute “local copy” that the folks at the paper might be interested in publishing somewhere. I mentioned this to one…
Photography
A pretty picture
by tmangan • April 10, 2007 • 1 Comment
“The crowds …,” from the photo stream of busybeingborn. … because I’ve got nothing better to do at the moment. This is at the Don Edwards Wildlife Sanctuary near Alviso. It’s full of little walkways that go all the way…
Hiking
A hiking song
by tmangan • April 10, 2007 • 1 Comment
… specially written for all us old folks with creaky knees and sore feet.
Appalachian Trail, Through-hiking
Seasons of the AT
by tmangan • April 10, 2007 • 0 Comments
Leonard Adkins on the changing terrain, and changing weather, of the Appalachian Trail: We started in the morning beside the Pigeon River at an elevation of 1,400 feet above sea level. Rising on the pathway that was sometimes going uphill…
Tom's travels
A plug for plain ol’ walking
by tmangan • April 9, 2007 • 2 Comments
So we’re pretty much settled in at the new place in town and the past couple weekends I’ve been hitting the sidewalks to see what’s within easy reach. The great thing about being accustomed to 12-mile Saturday jaunts with 2,000…
Trails
East Bay Challenge
by tmangan • April 9, 2007 • 1 Comment
Tom Stienstra of that newspaper which we do not name on this blog writes about the East Bay Trails Challenge organized by the East Bay Regional Parks District This is how it works: You register for the Trails Challenge by…
Mission Peak
Lessons learned while fogged in
by tmangan • April 8, 2007 • 3 Comments
Some of you might be saying to yourselves, “Tom, why do you keep going back to the same ol’ places.” Laziness, mostly, but there are times when knowing the terrain like the back of one’s hand (though, come to think…