I found this email in this morning’s inbox. Hi Tom, My name is Maya and I wanted to introduce to you our hiking forum: http://www.hikingforums.net/. As a hiking enthusiastic, I am trying to set up a hiking community, which, hopefully…
Blogs
After-Christmas blog roll
by tmangan • December 27, 2005 • 0 Comments
Let’s have us some linkage: Simplehiker warns of taking way too much Tylenol. My conclusion: if you need that much pain relief you need a less arduous hobby, like knitting. Hikerdude tells how to hang your bear bag via the…
Blogs
Podcast updates
by tmangan • December 27, 2005 • 0 Comments
WildeBeat craves feedback. Please send Steve some love, it’s lonesome out here in the blogosphere. Trailcast interviews a guy who’s hiking the Triple Crown in one year. That is, the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails. I’m thinking there…
Hikes of the world
You say Death Valley’s isn’t dry enough for you?
by tmangan • December 27, 2005 • 1 Comment
Try Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth. Now, having lived in Chile for a bit myself, and having visited the desert, I can tell you that the Atacama is very dry. And it is also one of the…
Hikes of the world
Among statues
by tmangan • December 27, 2005 • 0 Comments
Here’s an interesting hiking vacation idea: Easter Island. Another day, rise early and take a taxi to lovely Anakena Beach at the end of the paved road on the north side of the island (you should pay under US$10 for…
Hikes of the world
Into Africa
by tmangan • December 23, 2005 • 0 Comments
This sounds to me like the ultimate hiking vacation: Climbing Kilimanjaro. Do it soon before the icecap melts.
Gear
More gear than you can shake a walking stick at
by tmangan • December 23, 2005 • 0 Comments
The staff of BackpackingLight.com have posted their favorite gear items of 2005. It’s nice to have some reviews — short and sweet — that aren’t behind the subscription wall.
Backpacking
Errors in the copy, alas
by tmangan • December 22, 2005 • 4 Comments
So I read another of those “she finished the whole trail” stories the other day and one passage set the hairs on the back of my neck on end. Check it out: After five long months of not having a…
Blogs
More fine bloggerel
by tmangan • December 22, 2005 • 0 Comments
Blackpacker has an excellent list of ways to stay clean in the outdoors (and yes, there is a section on defecation. That’s why this one goes first). UT Outdoors gets down into another of those skinny little canyons. Them boys…