Outdoor Sports Blog gives the skinny on keeping your knees in shape for trail duty. One bullet item: Use trekking poles, especially when hiking downhill. Trekking or Hiking Poles not only help to avoid or reduce knee pain when hiking…
Hiking
The fat lady hikes
by tmangan • November 16, 2005 • 1 Comment
From an L.A. Times story by a woman who keeps going despite the strange looks from skinnier, faster hikers. Maybe you have to be fat to have the “What if?” moment I had. Because that cave was not built for…
Backpacking
Why all these stories…
by tmangan • November 16, 2005 • 0 Comments
… about people conquering the AT, PCT, etc? Oh, yeah, because now people are finishing the trails. It helps to live in a small town with a paper desperate for anything remotely interesting to fill its pages. Long-distance hikers come…
Backpacking
Winter camping for newbies
by tmangan • November 16, 2005 • 0 Comments
rec.backcountry has an informative thread. On the more concrete level: in winter camping/travel moisture is your enemy and your goal. Be warm through layers; keep dry through not overlayering. Be able to ventilate without chilling; be able to hydrate without…
Tom's travels
So much for taking the morning off
by tmangan • November 15, 2005 • 0 Comments
Well, I did get in 3.5 miles this morning, carrying about 20 pounds in the ol’ daypack. Should’ve been a fairly uneventful hour and 15 minutes with maybe 800 feet of elevation gain — trails all dry & groomed, warming…
Hiking
For your next snowshoeing expedition
by tmangan • November 15, 2005 • 0 Comments
For all you poor saps who deal with snow in the winter: A bunch of handy tips for keeping yourself dry — and alive — while exerting yourself in cold weather, from the folks at Seattle Mountaineers. I moved to…
Hiking
All that leave-no-trace business
by tmangan • November 15, 2005 • 0 Comments
Hiker Dude’s got it all on his blog.
Tom's travels
Taking the morning off
by tmangan • November 15, 2005 • 0 Comments
I’m doing a little training hike this morning; check back tomorrow for fresh post-age. I did post a couple comments over at the Get Outdoors Blog, if you’re curious.
Hiking
Raft o’ hiking links
by tmangan • November 14, 2005 • 0 Comments
Greatoutdoors.com has a bunch of hiking-related items posted. Excerpt from Peter Potterfield’s “Classic Hikes of the World. Among the classics: Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim, Grand Canyon National Park Routeburn Track, South…