Haiku, last seen accompanying Treehugger and others for a couple thousand miles up the Pacific Crest Trail last summer, plans to hike the Continental Divide Trail this summer. What he’s up to now: I’m preparing/dehydrating food for my food drops.…
Tag Archive for Through-hiking
Trail’s health mirrors our own
by tmangan • December 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
This story from the Washington Post earlier this week tells of a project to monitor the health of the Appalachian Trail, the idea being that as the ecosystem along the trail goes, so goes the whole Eastern Seaboard. An example…
Funnybone’s advice for PCT wannabes
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 1 Comment
His Pacific Crest Trail adventure complete, Chuckie V. dispenses bits of wisdom. Hike your own hike. Basic advice here. Anybody who tells you this more than once really means “Hike your own hike MY WAY.” Ignore them; they’re imbeciles. Gear…
Chuckie V reaches Canada
by tmangan • November 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Chuckie, trail name Funnybone, on reaching the final milepost on the Pacific Crest Trial: I wound my way down the last set of switchbacks when I came to a clearing. There it stood, Monument 78, a miniature Washington Monument looking…
One for the Trail Journals greatest hits file
by tmangan • November 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
From Funnybone’s PCT journal: It was an hideous day, the kind that reminds you that you’d rather be indoors reading or sitting in front of the telly or perhaps even doing the dishes or standing in line at the Department…
This one’s for Fedak
by tmangan • November 3, 2006 • 1 Comment
In honor of his broken leg, here’s a link to a woman who broke hers on a trail in Corsica, possibly monkey-wrenching her plans to thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail next summer. In August, I was hiking with my husband…
Another “Our Hike” update
by tmangan • October 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
From an e-mail that came in this morning regarding Robin Grapa and Patty Laatsch finishing their near-5,000 mile hike of the American Discovery Trail: They finished 8 months, 23 days and 5 hours after they started the journey at Cape…
Rolling Thunder’s last update
by tmangan • October 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
The New Zealander is back on his job covering the news back home, but he has one last post summarizing what it’s all about to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from stem to stern in one season. Read the whole…
PCT documentary in the works
by tmangan • October 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
Tell It on the Mountain aims to document the Pacific Crest Trail Class of 2007 by sending a bunch of thru-hikers out on the trail with small video cameras to document their experiences. The synopsis: Who better to punctuate these…