Highlights from my favorite outdoor blogs: Calipidder went backpacking at Point Reyes National Seashore. Gadling linked to the most-excellent Arun’s Travel Blog (which is much like my homepage except the hills are in India and he has monkeys for neighbors).…
Backpacking
Hangin’ with the Gila monsters
by tmangan • December 5, 2005 • 0 Comments
Justin the archer/hunter/backpacker is planning a backpacking trip next spring to the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico. He has a number of detailed posts on where he plans to go, what he has to know, etc. Instructive for planning your…
Tom's travels
A few pictures from the Bay Area heights
by tmangan • December 5, 2005 • 0 Comments
I knocked around for a couple hours near the summit of Mount Diablo on Sunday. Write-up here.
Mount Diablo
A chilly day at Mount Diablo
by tmangan • December 4, 2005 • 0 Comments
We got a bunch of rain last week; typically that’ll knock a lot of the crud out of the air and create amazing vistas from the hills around the Bay Area. Sunday morning we could see San Francisco from the…
In the news
A good hike gone bad
by tmangan • December 4, 2005 • 4 Comments
Climbing the 14,005-foot Mount of the Holy Cross does not, at a glance, sound especially fraught with trouble. It’s five miles to the summit (on the shortest trail) — granted with 5,000 feet of elevation gain and very thin air.…
Blogs
Two bloggers walk into a parking lot at…
by tmangan • December 3, 2005 • 0 Comments
I bumped into local blogger/shutterbug Dan Mitchell at the grand opening of a new trailhead in San Jose on Saturday. My writeup here. Here’s a shot Dan getting his lenses in order. Dan’s write-up here.
Rancho Canada del Oro
They didn’t pave paradise, but they did
put up a parking lot
by tmangan • December 3, 2005 • 1 Comment
You’ll have to take my word for it that this was worth doing: I really and truly attended the grand opening of a parking lot on Saturday. Another 50 or so people were there, which means either we were all…
Travel
Talk about your cool event
by tmangan • December 2, 2005 • 2 Comments
I’m sorely tempted to book passage to small Colorado mountain town for Frozen Dead Guy Days.
Backpacking
For all you snow campers
by tmangan • December 2, 2005 • 0 Comments
A handy tool for building your very own igloo.