This is interesting: The Fresno Bee is sending four pairs of writers & photographers out on the John Muir Trail, whose southern terminus is down in the general direction of Fresno. How come? The trail, a north-south footpath completed in…
Fitness
Yet another hiking-pole story
by tmangan • August 7, 2006 • 1 Comment
I haven’t written about hiking poles in awhile, and this story in an Oregon newspaper offers a fine excuse. The article primarily focuses on “nordic walking,” which I define as cross-country skiing minus the skis and the snow. According to…
In the news
The “motoring” public
by tmangan • August 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s an article from a Aspen weekly about folks who own motorized toys like motorcycles and four-wheelers bemoaning the lack of trails in national forests. Environmentalists and some hikers and mountain bikers want larger sections of non-wilderness lands closed to…
Blogs
A blog for us fogies
by tmangan • August 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
www.sportsgeezer.com belongs to writer/editor Art Jahnke. It’s mostly general health & fitness for over-40 types, but there is a hiking category. Art has a knack for plucking and posting unexpected tidbits, like the fact that watermelon is more nutritious at…
Ohlone Wilderness
19 miles and counting
by tmangan • August 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Did those birds really just crash into each other, I wondered? I was hiking along the Ohlone Wilderness Trail, hearing the occasional raptor screeches from high above me, when I saw what appeared to be a midair collision at the…
Blogs
LightBackpacking.com
by tmangan • August 4, 2006 • 0 Comments
Cutter linked to this blog yesterday: LightBackpacking.com. Its author is Bruce Lewis, who lives up north of the Bay Area along the Pacific Coast. Here’s his explanation of why he went light. I grew up in the big suburb city…
Hiking
Sierra Challenge
by tmangan • August 4, 2006 • 1 Comment
John Fedak informed me of an event open to anybody who can hike 20-plus miles in a day with 4,000-plus feet of climb at above 9,000 feet. It’s called the Sierra Challenge, organized by a peak-bagging fiend named Bob Burd.…
Blogs
Found another hiking blog
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 2 Comments
Hiking L.A. is as it sounds: about hikes near Los Angeles. The author is a playwright, which sounds a bit hoity-toity, but the writeups are straightforward “what we say, where went” accounts. From one entry on a hike at Mount…
Gear
Straw blogs
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
GoBlog points to the ultimate minimalist backcountry water filter: a straw.