All sorts of captivating links have been piling up in my RSS reader. Let’s get to ’em. Gear Wildebeat checks out great gear of ’06 reviewed at backpackgeartest.org. The Goat points to overshoes for your ankle cast. Winehiker outlines optional…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • December 29, 2006 • 0 Comments
Keyhole, originally uploaded by Rob Guglielmetti. “Keyhole,” from the photo stream of Rob Guglielmetti The scene is Long’s Peak, the famous Colorado Fourteener.
Hikes of the world
Heli-hiking to a glacier
by tmangan • December 28, 2006 • 0 Comments
From a blogger’s account of helicoptering to the Fox Glacier in New Zealand: John kept wishing for bad weather to liven up our hike, looking forward to being stranded on the glacier and hoping the guides would have to break…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • December 28, 2006 • 0 Comments
dreaming, originally uploaded by bonsaibutterfly. “dreaming” from the photo stream of bonsaibutterfly Setting is Tribble Mill State Park in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Hiking
Snowshoeing precautions
by tmangan • December 27, 2006 • 2 Comments
Andrew at WTA blog wonders if all these new converts to snowshoeing realize all the dangers inherent in winter backcountry fun, such as: Take those pesky and fatal avalanches, for instance. Popular summer hiking trails such as McClellan Butte, Granite…
Tom's travels
Power outage
by tmangan • December 27, 2006 • 0 Comments
We’re having a hellacious blow of wind and rain in the Bay Area today, one consequence of which is we’ve lost power at our house, so no electricity means no blog updates today. I’m at work now, which means I…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • December 27, 2006 • 0 Comments
A frog, originally uploaded by robif. “A Frog” from the photo stream of robif. Robert Faric, the photographer, says of the setting: The picture was taken on Pohorje in Slovenia. Pohorje is a mainly wooded mountain (highest elevation ~1520m) that…
Hikes of the world
Rick’s Top 10 Trails of the World
by tmangan • December 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
I figured I’d wait till Rick posted all 10 of his all-time favorite hiking locales. No. 1 is in Canada, of course. Today he added a Peruvian circuit not in his top 10 but notable as the locale of the…
Hiking
How to use a signal mirror
by tmangan • December 26, 2006 • 3 Comments
Everybody knows a signal mirror can save your bacon if you’re lost in the wilderness, but how many of us actually know how to use one? At risk of posting something of actual use to actual hikers, here’s a link…