Outdoor Gear Engine Blog has been added to the RSS feed. These days I’m trying as hard not to buy gear as I was trying to acquire it awhile back, but anyway: This blog has a bunch of posts about…
Mangan's memoirs
What I did over the weekend
by tmangan • October 10, 2006 • 0 Comments
Went camping at Mount Shasta with a bunch of folks I met via Two-Heel Drive, my hiking blog. Check out the details here. There are pictures, but you have to scroll down a ways to find them.
Outdoor Blogger Ho Down
One more Ho Down post …
by tmangan • October 10, 2006 • 2 Comments
… and I’ll give it a rest for awhile. I just wanted to provide quick impressions of the people I met over the weekend. Climb_CA: Much nicer in person. Tall and buff, able to scale impossible rock scrambles on no…
Outdoor Blogger Ho Down
So long, Shasta; Hello, Damascus
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
The weekend after Mother’s Day is Trail Days 2007 in Damascus, Virginia. I’ve made up my mind I’m going. Rick of Best Hikes has the dates — May 18, 19, 20 — penciled it in, and Cutter says he can…
Outdoor Blogger Ho Down
Images from the Ho down
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 4 Comments
We drove, we drank, we hiked, we dined. We slept under a stupendous autumn moon, snacked at the foot an immense exctinct volcano. Good times, as Winehiker Russ put it. With no further ado, here are my pictures from the…
Outdoor Blogger Ho Down
The Ho Down scoop
by tmangan • October 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
Tom of Trout Underground has posted a couple pictures from our weekend outing near Mount Shasta. Heres’ one post. Here’s another. I’m busy unpacking and restowing gear but I’ll try to get some pictures posted this morning.
Outdoor Blogger Ho Down
Ho Down weekend is upon us
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 1 Comment
Rick‘s flying in from Canada, Szu-Ting‘s flying over from Philly and a quartet of Bay Area bloggers are meeting Mr. Trout Underground near Mount Shasta around dinnertime for food, camping and chit-chat. Saturday we hike a bit of the Pacific…
Blogs
Tracking next year’s thru-hikers
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 1 Comment
Any of my hiking-blogging brethren interested in culling the best from the Class of 2007 thru-hikers who are posting at Trail Journals? I’ve already looked over about a dozen potential Pacific Crest Trail hikers and I can only guess how…
Pacific Crest Trail, Through-hiking
PCT documentary in the works
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
Tell It on the Mountain aims to document the Pacific Crest Trail Class of 2007 by sending a bunch of thru-hikers out on the trail with small video cameras to document their experiences. The synopsis: Who better to punctuate these…