You think all the kids are glued to their TVs and wrist-locked to their Xboxes? One poster at Whiteblaze.net is agonizing over whether to start college or hike 2000 miles first, then start college. Many of the Whiteblaze veterans insisted:…
Blogs
Catching up with our favorite blogs
by tmangan • January 10, 2006 • 0 Comments
Let’s do da roll: Bay Area Hiking Mama hasn’t hiked in awhile but she does have an amusing tale of meeting a naked guy on the trail. Jonathan Claxton makes me wonder: who knew Tennesse had so many waterfalls? Sounds…
Backpacking
Picking a pack
by tmangan • January 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
In the old days people figured backpacking meant you had to haul 50 pounds around. These days with all the ultra-light fanatics dominating the conversation, you’re looked upon as the silliest sort of fool if you carry more than 25…
Montebello Ridge Trail
Time for their close-up
by tmangan • January 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
What’ll people do to get on television? We found out a bit on Saturday when K half of the FOMFOK hiking group, and a friend of hers from work, took to the Santa Cruz Mountains to prepare their entry video…
Fitness
Snowshoeing: Nothing to it
by tmangan • January 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Businessweek has a quick guide to snowshoeing with enough expensive name brands to drive the GoBlog guys up a wall (which is what they like to do, as long as ropes are involved). This sentence struck me: Atlas’ spring-loaded snowshoes…
Wildlife
Just for fun…
by tmangan • January 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Outdoor Sports Blog links to somebody who believes Big Foot is real. All I can say is, most of the backcountry is unexplored by humans; judging from the rarity of seeing other people on the trails in populated areas, I…
Tom's travels
How things are gonna be the next few months
by tmangan • January 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
After a solid week of rain we had three nice days, Wednesday to Friday, which I took advantage of by hitting the trails as much as I could in available time and sunlight. That meant less time for blogging, alas,…
Hiking
Mud, if you must
by tmangan • January 4, 2006 • 0 Comments
The sane thing to do about muddy trails is hike someplace else. I try to be normal but there are times when I’m repulsed by the easy, sane choice and beguiled by the difficult, ludicrous one. My mom is still…
Blogs
Let us now roll great blogs
by tmangan • January 4, 2006 • 5 Comments
Linkage has been light the past few days, but tonight I warmed up my RSS reader and tracked down a raft of fresh posts from our favorite hiking/outdoor blogs. To wit: Airplane Journal goes to Marin County for a hike…