This is for all you Bay Area types hot to check out the latest trails: In one of the largest trail-building projects ever in the Santa Clara County parks system, crews have begun construction that will double the miles of…
Photography
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
“New Years Winter Wonderland In The Hight Peaks,” from the photo stream of Mountain Visions. Caption: “My wife ascending her first winter 4000ft peak on Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks. This was really the only technical section, althought there was…
Appalachian Trail, Through-hiking
The AT in 90 seconds
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 2 Comments
Old Goat put together this video slide show of his Appalachian Trail adventure last year. Pretty cool!
In the news
Studying Hetch Hetchy
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 3 Comments
Those outside of California might be only dimly aware that there’s a “second Yosemite Valley” that happens to have 300 feet of water in it. It’s called Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and it was created in the early 20th century, much…
Wildlife
Massive wilderness bill in Congress
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 0 Comments
Bill Schneider at New West profiles an astoundingly huge proposed increase in the declared wilderness acreage of the Rocky Mountain region. Highlights: Protects most roadless lands in the northern Rockies (20,572,147 acres) by giving them the
Photography
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Evening On Ridge,” from the photo stream of andersen_per. Per’s caption: My friend Pete Chapman on the popular tourist route Besseggen Ridge in the mountains of Jotunheimen, Norway. The picture was shot in September in the last rays of sun.…
Photography
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 7, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Injasuthi panorama,” from the photo stream of pjvrey. Locale is Injasuthi, South Africa.
Blogs
A few blog shout-outs
by tmangan • February 7, 2007 • 2 Comments
Just wanted to send along a few encouraging words about a couple blogs started in the past couple months that keep getting better. Russ at Trailcraft has an instructive should-I-GPS-or-not post. His conclusion: loves the entertainment value, leaves it at…
Gear
Shoe review update
by tmangan • February 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Ah, yes, the corporate-slut shoes,” somebody said at the Groundhog Day Invitational when I mentioned I was testing a pair of Zamberlan trail shoes I received awhile back. On the odd chance that anybody still cares about this, I figured…