Here’s a photo gallery of a hiking group from northern California that went snowshoeing in the high Sierra valley where the Donner Party practically froze and starved while stranded by the winter of 1846. Includes several shots of interpretive plaques,…
Blogs
Yes, it’s another outdoors blog
by tmangan • February 21, 2006 • 0 Comments
This one’s called Wicked Outdoorsy, belonging to a public relations agency with clients in the outdoors biz. Most of us in the news biz would wretch at the mere idea of linking to a PR blog, except that most of…
Gear
For all your cutlery needs
by tmangan • February 21, 2006 • 0 Comments
Elinemerchandising is an online retailer run by a Bay Area entrepreneur who specializes in things with sharp edges: If you’re never content with a mere Swiss army knife, you can always buy yourself a cavalry sword. The guy also has…
Blogs
Recent finds
by tmangan • February 20, 2006 • 0 Comments
The Piton is a group blog of outdoors types. They linked this way last week so I’m returning the favor. The Map Room is the place to be to feed your cartography fetish.
Blogs
Let’s get linkalicious
by tmangan • February 20, 2006 • 1 Comment
I found lots of swell goodies since the last update: GoBlog is blogging the Olympics (no comment on the board babe who was on her butt when she coulda been winning a gold medal; just as well — I thought…
Mount Diablo
A quest for snow
by tmangan • February 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
The snow we got over the weekend was heaviest above 3,000 feet. Since I’m all about the snow outings these days I decided the place to go to see more snow was Mount Diablo, which summits at over 3800 feet.…
Gear
Acronym of the day
by tmangan • February 17, 2006 • 2 Comments
G.A.D.: Gear Aquisition Disorder. Symptoms: owning multiple examples of a single type of gear. If you have more than three backpacks or four pairs of ourtdoor-related footwear, or tend to stop by REI because it’s, you know, on the way,…
Blogs
Linkapalooza
by tmangan • February 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Lots of stuff came over the transom since yesterday’s update. Let’s check it out: Those “Our Hike” gals are up to Day 12. I’m noticing they aren’t exactly purists about camping their way across America at this point — quite…
Blogs
Let’s have some more links
by tmangan • February 16, 2006 • 0 Comments
Little Po did some showshoeing. Justin needs some more suggestions for backpacking movies. Jonathan Claxton saw some snow in middle Tennesse. Treknologies needs some contributors for Jesse’s new adventure-travel wiki. GoBlog raves over some high-tech Asolo hiking shoes.