Tough guy/Iraq veteran/cop rescuer totes 47-year-old woman to safety after she fractured her ankle on a remote trail in North Jerseys’ Ramapo Reservation. Tapia, 28, had to negotiate rocks, skirt fallen trees, and wade through water, with the injured woman…
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Wow, a snow snorkel
by tmangan • May 29, 2007 • 1 Comment
Appropriate, now that the snow season’s pretty much over: I happened upon a link to the Black Diamond Avalung, which allows people trapped in avalanches to breathe by taking air from the surrounding snow and rerouting exhaled air somewhere else.…
A fine Appalachian Trail blog
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 5 Comments
Alert reader Jeremiah Kemper pointed me to Ben and Lauren’s 2007 Adventure. Their latest post is from Erwin, Tennessee (mile 338.7), so there’s lots more hiking — and, more importantly, blogging — to go as they travel north. I found…
Turkey tales
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 4 Comments
I noticed this cool post at the Dzonoqua’s Whistle blog from last weekend. It starts with a rather tragic description of an abandoned duck’s nest, the moves on to an interesting passage about a wild turkey hen and her chicks.…
Parks reservation system crash
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, National Parks Traveler reported yesterday: The folks at Great Smoky Mountains National Park report that the national reservation system for the park systems’ campgrounds crashed earlier today. As a result, all of Great…
Hiking poles, part II
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
Wildebeat wraps up its reports on hiking poles. From his script: JULIANNE ABENDROTH-SMITH: Well what we saw in that study was as — at the lesser slope, the fifteen degree slope… some people used the poles very effectively, a lot…
Lions vs. cape buffalos vs. crocodiles
by tmangan • May 24, 2007 • 1 Comment
Excellent YouTube video from somebody’s South African safari vacation: Lions attack baby buffalo next to water hole; crocodiles try to steal the baby from the lions, and fail; buffalo herd returns and rescues the baby from the lions’ grasp. Check…
Where I’m walking these days
by tmangan • May 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
The place were we live now has this huge open green space with a nice little soft jogging track next to the sidewalk. A full walk around it is about a half-mile. I figure I might just as well take…
Some nice Alaska pictures
by tmangan • May 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
Stumbled upon Wild Things Photography, found many pretty pictures. The shooter is John Hyde of Juneau, Alaska.