This is interesting: The Fresno Bee is sending four pairs of writers & photographers out on the John Muir Trail, whose southern terminus is down in the general direction of Fresno. How come? The trail, a north-south footpath completed in…
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The bear went thataway
by tmangan • July 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
From BlackHole & Guac’s Pacific Crest Trail journal, at mile 1050.8: In the afternoon I spotted a big, cinnamon colored bear near a small creek (King’s Creek, I think). BlackHole and I watched him eat, about 200 feet away. We…
WildeBeat sighting
by tmangan • July 10, 2006 • 2 Comments
One of the Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers mentions bumping into Steve Sergeant and a friend at a resort along the trail: When I was checking out the bath-house I met WildeGeek and Patty who had just finshed a section of…
Bone-Pac finishes the AT
by tmangan • July 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’ve been so busy following Pacific Crest Trail hiker exploits that I neglected to check out the Trail Journal entries of a guy named Bone-Pac, who was one of the fastest hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Well, while I was…
Another Funnybone moment
by tmangan • July 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Chuckie V. again demonstrates why his Pacific Crest Trail journal is the most post-worthy of the bunch. Just a few days ago, I labored along Selden Pass’s lower slopes. A sort of no-man’s-land, this portion of the steep incline is…
What it means to be Yogi
by tmangan • June 22, 2006 • 1 Comment
PCT thru-hiker Funnybone tells how it’s done. To “yogi” is to ask for something—in this case, a ride down to Independence—without actually asking. I define yogi-ing as such: implying you could use help without inquiring for help. It goes like…
Latest hiking chatter
by tmangan • June 13, 2006 • 0 Comments
Whole lotta hikin goin on out there. Highlights from this morning’s RSS feed check: Jason Lustig looks back fondly on his Appalachian Trail thru-hike of 2000. How do I put into words the beauty that I saw? I saw painted…
The AT as Ultimate Summer Camp
by tmangan • June 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Jordan McCarron at mile 799.1 of the Appalachian Trail: We can play outside from the moment the sun comes up until it goes down and even then we can sleep out in tents. We can have campfires and make s’mores…
‘Hiker Heaven’ on the PCT
by tmangan • June 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
From the LiveJournal blog of Redtail, at mile 454 on the Pacific Crest Trail: Hiker Heaven … is an experience unto itself. THGTTPCT tries to give some flavor of it in the page and a half it devotes to the…