Haiku, last seen accompanying Treehugger and others for a couple thousand miles up the Pacific Crest Trail last summer, plans to hike the Continental Divide Trail this summer. What he’s up to now: I’m preparing/dehydrating food for my food drops.…
In the news
More winter survival tips
by tmangan • January 7, 2007 • 0 Comments
Tom Stienstra interviews a survival expert who gives many of the usual tidbits of advice (your immediate need is for water, not food, etc). And this: Improvise: “You have to know how to improvise because it’s doubtful everything will be…
Gear
Locator beacons
by tmangan • January 7, 2007 • 1 Comment
A thread at Google Groups mentions a climber at Big Bend National Park summoning rescuers because he was stuck on a rock. I know the boys at GoBlog are opposed to this sort of thing on general principles — it’s…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • January 7, 2007 • 0 Comments
Abandoned Hotel, originally uploaded by jWt_foto. “Abandoned Hotel” from the photo stream of jWt foto. Setting is the Catskills in New York state.
Hiking
Night hiking
by tmangan • January 6, 2007 • 1 Comment
An interesting recently discovered blog called As the Crow Flies discusses hiking after dark: When the days are scorching and the nights are cool, I find it a good strategy to hike at night, especially when there is a long…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • January 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
tent in moonlight, originally uploaded by TroyMason. “tent in moonlight” from the photo stream of Troy Mason. The pic is a 30-second exposure with a headlamp lighting the tent. Locale is Duckabush River. Olympic National Park.
Blogs
Further evidence of Google’s plan for global domination
by tmangan • January 5, 2007 • 5 Comments
I’m speaking of the Google Reader, which I’ve been fiddling with all morning after giving up on Bloglines for the last time. I had been using a Firefox plugin called Sage for all my RSS feeds, but it quit working…
Blogs
National Parks Traveler gets a plug
by tmangan • January 5, 2007 • 0 Comments
Kurt was one of the bloggers checking out the faulty claims that the Parks Service wasn’t letting its employees reveal the “true age” of the Grand Canyon. Today he earned an atta-boy from Daily Kos, the heaviest of the heavyweight…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • January 5, 2007 • 0 Comments
Snowshoes, originally uploaded by nicholsphotos. Snowshoes from the photo stream of nicholsphotos. Scene is a New Year’s Day hike in Elena Gallegos Park in the Albuquerque foothills. (Lots o’ great snow pix in this photo stream, definitely worth checking out).