HighSierraTopix has a thread on “meeting people in the backcountry” that generates tons of interesting ancecdotes. My favorite so far is one by Markskor of Sacramento called The Kid from Tuolumne Store. It’s a bit long but must be read…
Backpacking
Pitching in the rain
by tmangan • January 18, 2006 • 1 Comment
Trailforums has an informative thread on pitching your tent in a downpour. I’ve been tempted to try out my REI Quarter Dome on a rainy weekend just to see how it’s done, but I’m not sure I want to get…
Blogs
2 down, 38 to go
by tmangan • January 18, 2006 • 0 Comments
Cutter posted an account of his hike up Mount Kephart, one of 40 peaks in the South Beyond 6000 (that is, peaks in the Southern U.S. taller than 6,000 feet). I slowed and moved aside to let the hiker pass.…
Blogs
This is cool: a bi-lingual blog
by tmangan • January 18, 2006 • 1 Comment
LittlePo.com is the work of a young woman from Taipei who’s into climbing, paddling and backpacking (now living in the northeastern U.S., I’m pretty sure). Her site has a link for switching between English and Chinese. Little Po’s real name…
Blogs
A sunny breakfast blogroll
by tmangan • January 17, 2006 • 2 Comments
No rain in this morning’s forecast, but it’s supposed to storm tonight, so I’ll be on the trail this morning. Here are some freshly hand-rolled posts of note: Calipidder went camping at my favorite hills-from-hell locale, Henry Coe State Park.…
Blogs
Tibetan wonders
by tmangan • January 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a site I’ve been holding in reserve for a moment just like this: In the Footsteps of Joseph Rock, a blog by an Australian guy who’s retracing the routes of Rock, a botanist who worked there in the 1920s,…
Blogs
An RV site worth checking out
by tmangan • January 16, 2006 • 10 Comments
Out ‘n’ About is fundamentally a blog out taking one’s recreational vehicle into the backcountry. Of course as a loyal GoBlog reader I’m shocked and appalled by the extravagant petroleum thirst required to get any kind of camper into the…
Blogs
A prehike blogroll
by tmangan • January 16, 2006 • 2 Comments
I’ll be back out in the mud this morning but I’ll leave y’all with these links from those blogs we adore: Outdoor sports blog links to a half-dozen or so painfullly obvious hiking tips (the painful part becomes obvious only…
Uvas Canyon County Park
How about them waterfalls
by tmangan • January 15, 2006 • 2 Comments
It rained all day Saturday but I felt fine, because that meant the waterfalls would be roaring come Sunday, which is just how it turned out. Mike & Kathy’s hiking club does waterfall hikes right after New Years. Last year…