Backpacker magazine has a quickie guide. I found this part about starting in Canada and heading south interesting. A few hikers will begin in late June from Manning Provincial Park and hike southbound to Campo. Southbound hikers can still expect…
Hikes of the world
A Kilimanjaro survivor’s tale
by tmangan • August 28, 2006 • 0 Comments
A writer for the Honolulu Advertiser recounts: At 18,000 feet, the altitude ambushed me. I could barely breathe, and my water bottles were frozen solid. My head pulsed, my legs wobbled like a newborn calf’s and I saw things that…
Henry Coe State Park
Warm thoughts of Henry Coe
by tmangan • August 27, 2006 • 3 Comments
Back to the dirt paths this week. I tempted fate and revisited Henry Coe State Park almost a year to the day after an ill-advised trek up the steepest trail in the park under a blazing, north of 95-degree sun.…
Appalachian Trail, Through-hiking
Well, this is cool
by tmangan • August 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
Bone Pac, the guy who was the first to finish the Appalachian Trail this season, has something trailworthy going on: Upon arriving home after the thru-hike I quickly submerged myself into to routine goings-ons of my pre-hike life (which I…
Pacific Crest Trail, Through-hiking
The world according to Funnybone
by tmangan • August 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
AKA Chuckie V, at mile 1595 of the Pacific Crest Trail: Things like this disturb me. How is someone supposed to afford to live in California? To me, it’s not a fair trade (and, in fact, a rather fatuous one)…
Wildlife
History of bear canisters, volume I
by tmangan • August 25, 2006 • 3 Comments
Steve at the WildeBeat has the scoop. Much of the credit for the current bear canister industry hinges on the fact that a guy named Garcia had a machine shop. Oh, and the fact that a hungry bear is a…
Blogs
Check out the Trout Underground
by tmangan • August 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Tom Chandler sent me a note about his blog, which recently included a writeup encouraging fisherpeople to walk deeper into the country to find new and interesting lakes, streams and rivers where the fish refuse to bite. Fishing answers the…
Hiking
Well, if you’re packing out your poop…
by tmangan • August 24, 2006 • 6 Comments
… then, surely, you must be drinking your dishwater. Andrew at Washington Trail Association wonders: Do you drink your dishwater? Camp cookingI’ve just recently learned of this practice. A coworker told me about a trip she’d taken on the Hoh…
Appalachian Trail, Through-hiking
Just five more to go
by tmangan • August 23, 2006 • 0 Comments
Conductor, at Mile 2160.9 on the Appalachian Trail: In reality it’s just a climb, only five miles, over in mid afternoon. In our dreams it is the finale, the place we have hiked so far to reach. After all, it’s…