What if everything you can do on land, sea and air were all covered by the same Web site? Would you wear a hole in your mouse pad checking it out? Well, now you have a chance with Outdoorzy.com, which…
Blogs
RSS feed upgrade
by tmangan • November 27, 2006 • 0 Comments
Russ Whitney of Hiking Ideas kindly informed me that my Flickr pix weren’t showing up in his RSS feed. To fix the glitch, I had to tweak a template for my feeds allowing them to display full entries rather than…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • November 26, 2006 • 3 Comments
Whitney on Summit of Sacajawea Peak, originally uploaded by AudreyMT. “Whitney on Summit of Sacajawea Peak” from the photostream of AudreyMT in Livingston, Montana Sacajawea Peak is in the Bridger Mountains near Bozeman, Montana.
Rancho San Antonio
All the way to Black Mountain
by tmangan • November 25, 2006 • 3 Comments
There’s an easy way and a hard way to get to Black Mountain, a 2,800-foot summit in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of San Jose. I’ve done the easy route a couple times with Mike and Kathy’s hiking group for…
Photography
Flickr pic o’ the day
by tmangan • November 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Nature Calling?, originally uploaded by Real_Bostonian. An odd thing to find in the wilderness.. from Real Bostonian’s photostream at flickr.com Locale is the Blue Hills Reservation in Massachusetts.
Gear
Another GPS-plus-Google Maps site
by tmangan • November 24, 2006 • 1 Comment
Tech digest interviews the guy in charge of everytrail.com A big trend that could fuel Everytrail’s growth is the spread of GPS into a wider range of devices, particularly mobile phones. This is partly because users will be able to…
Hiking
Avalanche-safety course discount
by tmangan • November 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Backcountry.com is offering a deal on its avalanche-safety course Backcountry.com has teamed up with the American Avalanche Institute to offer any Backcountry.com customer 20% off a Level I or Level II avalanche course this winter. Since 1974 the American Avalanche…
Tom's travels
Do something crazy next time
by tmangan • November 23, 2006 • 0 Comments
I thought Dan Mitchell was nuts when he suggested hiking to the top of Mission Peak in the dark to catch the sunrise from the summit. I knew this meant a 5:30 lift-off, which meant waking an hour earlier to…
Mangan's memoirs
Mission Peak at Sunrise
by tmangan • November 23, 2006 • 1 Comment
Dan taking shots, originally uploaded by Tom Clifton. I spent the predawn hours hiking to the top of Mission Peak with Dan Mitchell, in the photo above; Tom Clifton, who took this picture; John Fedak, who joined me at Mount…