PCT thru-hiker Funnybone stopped by a rock formation I’ve been itching to check out: The Sierra Buttes are beauts indeed. They’re jagged and isolated from everything around them, propped up without anything but the clear blue sky for a backdrop.…
Trails
Heading to Lake Tahoe?
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
Reno-Tahoe Blog has a couple interesting destinations: Vikingsholm, a rich Illinois woman’s guest house that’s now owned by California’s state parks; and Nevada petroglyphs, writings and carvings left on rocks by ancient Americans.
Fitness
More blister tips
by tmangan • August 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Handy reminders from Newswise.com; one of the bunch: Try lubricants and antiperspirants. For short hikes, petroleum jelly and drying powders can help. For longer hikes, antiperspirants containing aluminum chloride hexahydrate have a proven effect by reducing the amount of perspiration…
Hikes of the world
Death march survivor’s tale
by tmangan • August 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a guy who retraced a real death march, in New Guinea, scene of one of the most terrible hikes in the history of World War II. Campbell recalled hearing about an ill-fated march by a battalion of U.S. infantrymen,…
Hiking
For your next hiking vacation
by tmangan • August 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Inn-to-inn hiking is available in Colorado: “It is a type of hiking generally not available in the United States,” Novic says, noting that most American long-distance trails are one continuous route. “Inn-to-inn walks, however, are unbeatable for someone who enjoys…
Tomales Point
Another Tomales Point hike
by tmangan • July 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
In the past two weeks I have discussed the following with Seagull, my hiking visitor from China: The fundamental contradictions of American culture (standing for freedom, keeping slaves, for example). The Marketplace of Ideas theory (people will buy the good…
Hiking
Five ways to avoid getting killed
by tmangan • July 28, 2006 • 5 Comments
CBSNEWS.COM lists the top five causes of hiking fatalities. Falling Drowning Heart Attack Hypothermia Heat stress
Blogs
Somewhere east of Texas
by tmangan • July 27, 2006 • 0 Comments
From a blog called WhiteCrow Walking, authored by a guy who’s walking all over the United States. The clerk warm up to me slowly as if he finally believes I am whom I say I am. Although I know I’ll…
Blogs
Crazy from the heat
by tmangan • July 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
Chris Clarke, owner of the Creek Running North blog, went out hiking at Mount Diablo over the weekend, when inland Bay Area temperatures were running from 105 to 115 at the hottest part of the day. He shared this quick…