Scubaman is just outside of Warner Springs on the Pacific Crest Trail: My latest start yet. I was not under way until after 9 AM. It was cold outside and my clothes still damp. The sleeping bag felt so toasty…
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Groomsman in the Yakima Herald
by tmangan • April 20, 2007 • 0 Comments
Tyler Gence hiked the Pacific Crest Trail last year; he’s giving a presentation on his experience next Wednesday in Yakima. From the story in the local paper: So Gence decided to do take some time last year to do a…
Seasons of the AT
by tmangan • April 10, 2007 • 0 Comments
Leonard Adkins on the changing terrain, and changing weather, of the Appalachian Trail: We started in the morning beside the Pigeon River at an elevation of 1,400 feet above sea level. Rising on the pathway that was sometimes going uphill…
Recent Trail Journals highlights
by tmangan • March 6, 2007 • 1 Comment
Sharon Allen, beside herself with anticipation, points to bearcan’t.org, perhaps the most elaborate Pacific Crest Trail journal ever created. 30-30, a 2004 AT veteran, starts his 2007 PCT journal as such: Hi, my name is Scott & I am a…
Habitual Hiker profiled
by tmangan • February 27, 2007 • 0 Comments
Leonard M. Adkins is about to begin his fifth thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. The Charleston, W.Va., Daily Mail has a nice profile. It’s his wife’s fourth time, and his dog’s second. He made it 900 miles on the first…
Another thru-hiker fundraiser
by tmangan • February 26, 2007 • 0 Comments
From a recent Akron Beacon-Journal report: Josh Wengerd is taking steps — millions of them, in fact — to raise awareness about a Stark County group that helps people who can’t afford their prescription medicines. Starting next month, the 23-year-old…
Why he’s hiking the PCT
by tmangan • February 23, 2007 • 0 Comments
Paul Caccamo, from a Trail Journals prep entry: For quite some time I’ve been feeling the desire to check out of our mechanized and digitalized existence. I’ve become extremely sensetive to machine sounds over the past few years. If I’m…
Hooked on the PCT
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
Sarah at Freezerbag Cooking offers another of her excellent not-about-cooking posts, this one on the siren song of the Pacific Crest Trail, of which she’s hiked a few sections: Over the past years I started piecing trips out when I…
The AT in 90 seconds
by tmangan • February 8, 2007 • 2 Comments
Old Goat put together this video slide show of his Appalachian Trail adventure last year. Pretty cool!