Drilling for natural gas has tripled in the past few years. Wildlife populations near the wells are taking a hit, according to this story from cnn.com On a June morning, standing in the middle of one of Wyoming’s largest gas…
Daily Archives: July 25, 2007
A Down Under hiking blog
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 2 Comments
This one goes out to Steve Sergeant, who would snow-camp all year if there were clean ski tracks available. An avid outdoorsguy from Australia, where the folks in the far southern climes are chilling out for another winter, left a…
Link payback: Venture Tree
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 1 Comment
Got a note the other day from the folks at venturetree.blogspot.com, a group blog about outdoors stuff based in Nashville. The blog’s been working up steam for the past few months and looks to be off to a good start.…
Hiking group or flash mob?
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
Do flash mobs even exist anymore? Anyway… I thought it’d be interesting to post a link to one of the local hikes listed on meetup.com. A group based in Mountain View called “Let’s hike and maybe take a break if…
Hiker dies in Marin
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Searchers found the body of Barbara Cooper, 56, who had been missing since July 20, yesterday on a hillside in the Terra Linda Ridge area. From cbs5.com: Cooper, an artist and avid hiker, was reported missing July 20 when a…
So, how’s your lens envy?
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Dan Mitchell says his equipment measures up. Lenses: I try not to succumb to Lens Fever, so I use a small set of good Canon lenses: EF 17-40mm f/4 L, EF 24-105mm f/4 IS L, EF 70-200mm f/4 L, and…