Can’t wait to try out my Gore-Tex on the Red Planet: Scientists using data from the HRSC experiment onboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft have produced the first ‘hiker’s maps’ of Mars. Giving detailed height contours and names of geological features…
Backpacking
Because you can never be too geeky
by tmangan • February 12, 2007 • 0 Comments
Trailcraft Russ admits he’s gone off the deep end in regards to lightening his pack. Now he’s weighing all his food to make sure he takes only the light stuff along. He’s created a chart comparing how many calories per…
In the news
Itchin’ to fight against a dam?
by tmangan • February 12, 2007 • 6 Comments
Modern Hiker notes that a utility company wants to put one up in Orange County: Opponents of the dam are upset not only because the project would destroy one of the most popular hiking trails in the forest, but also…
Photography
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 12, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Frost,” from the photo stream of velvia rules!. Caption: “Trees in mid-winter on a ridge near Paradise, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. Winter 2004.”
Hiking
Stop by Jeff Alt’s site
by tmangan • February 12, 2007 • 0 Comments
Jeff has hiked John Muir Trail and the Appalachian trail, raising money/awareness for good causes and putting in trail miles and bag nights that would put most of us to shame. Mind you he’s trying to make a go of…
Trails
New Big Sur hiking site
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
This just in: www.hikinginbigsur.com. Big Sur is the remote stretch of California coastline south of Carmel, where Clint Eastwood used to be mayor. It has some of the most spectacular coastal scenery on this continent, and I’m just talking about…
Hiking
Trail talk
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
A writer at The American Spectator describes his Wyoming hiking club. My favorite part: We have a joke in the club that says — based on that TV commercial promoting Las Vegas — that whatever is said on the trail,…
Hiking
Southeast Hiking Festival
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
American Hiking Society’s Web site has the details: Great Southeastern Hiking Festival Conference (fee) May 3 – 6, 2007 Montreat Conference Center Montreat, North Carolina and Free Public Festival Saturday May 5 From 9 AM – 7 PM In Downtown…
Pacific Crest Trail, Through-hiking
Hooked on the PCT
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
Sarah at Freezerbag Cooking offers another of her excellent not-about-cooking posts, this one on the siren song of the Pacific Crest Trail, of which she’s hiked a few sections: Over the past years I started piecing trips out when I…