Rocky Mountain News profiles Aron Ralston, whose path to fame and fortune involved cutting off a limb to save his fanny. Now he’s swimming in cash from speaking engagements, commercial endorsements, book royalties, etc. Ralston said the book advance exceeded…
Hiking
Hiking with a tiny babe
by tmangan • July 18, 2006 • 1 Comment
One of the New West writers recounts a hike with her month-old baby. This was my favorite part. Nursing in the Woods: Not as Freaky as Anticipated The kid was going to need to eat a few times along our…
Hiking
Playing well with others
by tmangan • July 18, 2006 • 3 Comments
The worrywarts tell us: never hike alone, but pretty much all of us do it probably most of the time, because it’s so much easier to just find your way to a trailhead and start walking than it is to…
Emigrant Wilderness
Another two days in the wilderness
by tmangan • July 17, 2006 • 6 Comments
It’s about 2 in the morning and I’m staring into the black nylon of my sleeping bag. I should be staring out the little hole that makes this a "mummy-style" bag, but my twisting and turning has entered the Olympic…
Blogs
A couple quick outing reports
by tmangan • July 13, 2006 • 1 Comment
The Dude spent five days scrambling, fishing and camping in wilds of Montana. Many mountain goats visited his campsite: We skeedaddled and left the goats to paw up the ground where we had peed the night before. Yes, they were…
Backpacking
Packing out your poop
by tmangan • July 12, 2006 • 3 Comments
I keep promising not to write any more about bodily functions and keep breaking that promise but I have to figure, heck, everybody’s got to go, right? So anyway: The last overnight trip I went on passed a popular lake…
Photography
My PCT pratfall
by tmangan • July 11, 2006 • 2 Comments
There I was, poised on a footpath at Sonora Pass, 9,624 feet up on the Sierra crest, surrounded by stately, snow-clad peaks. Stepping backward to get more mountain into my digicam’s viewfinder, I stumbled on a small rock, landed on…
Pacific Crest Trail, Through-hiking
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…
Blogs
Northeast hiker’s blog
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened across Grog’s Blog this morning. It’s a pretty straightforward “here’s where I went, what I saw” hiking journal that offers ideas for checking trails of New England”s mountainous regions.