Sarah at Freezerbagcooking.com has started a new hiking site for women called Traildivas.com. I hope to show other women what they can do to carry less weight while backpacking, how to hike farther when dayhiking and to feel comfortable taking…
Wildlife
China’s pollution landing in California
by tmangan • June 17, 2007 • 1 Comment
Airborne crud from the China boom is settling in the High Sierra, according to this story my employer published today. For China, the 21st century holds boundless possibilities. The awakening economic giant could surpass anything that has come before it.…
Big Basin Redwoods
Big Basin from the back side
by tmangan • June 17, 2007 • 4 Comments
I wondered why that farm worker was giving me that strange look. Maybe it was because he has a backbreaking job providing all the exercise he requires and he can’t imagine why people would walk for recreation when General Motors…
Blogs
Latest obsession: LinkedIn.com
by tmangan • June 15, 2007 • 3 Comments
LinkedIn is a professional networking site whose membership includes a remarkable number of acquaintances of mine. Yesterday a woman I worked with in 1990 added me to her network, which is nice to know since she’s the editor in chief…
Blogs
Dan Mitchell’s new cyber crib
by tmangan • June 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
It’s up and running at the same URL but it has a new RSS feed: http://outside.danmitchell.org/feed/
Blogs
Mangan’s absurdly exhaustive list of UK hiking blogs
by tmangan • June 14, 2007 • 3 Comments
OK, I get in moods that require me to do things like this now again. Think autistic-savant minus the savant part. These are all the UK-based hiking blogs I found today, with Andy and AktoMan thrown in for good measure.…
Blogs
UK hikers: barking mad for blogging
by tmangan • June 14, 2007 • 1 Comment
Darren Christie dropped me a note yesterday to encourage links to more UK hiking/trekking/walking blogs. Fair enough, says I, and I start out at this thread at outdoorbloggers.com and start bookmarking the blogs there. Then I do some more poking…
Gear
Any Taiga owners out there?
by tmangan • June 14, 2007 • 6 Comments
I received an e-mail from Jeremy at Taiga Works in Vancouver asking if I’d like to add a link to their site from my list of gear makers/dealers. From the looks of Taiga’s Web site, the gear appears to be…
In the news
Colin Fletcher has died
by tmangan • June 13, 2007 • 4 Comments
Colin Fletcher, author of “The Man Who Walked Through Time” and “The Complete Walker,” died on Tuesday in Monterey County, California, at the age of 85. Here’s a quote from Fletcher from a 1997 interview about a book he wrote…