{"id":3393,"date":"2009-07-15T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2010-09-04T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T15:13:20","slug":"great-links-from-the-hiking-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/07\/15\/great-links-from-the-hiking-blogosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Great links from the hiking blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:250px; margin-left:14px; margin-bottom:14px; float:right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/images\/adampaulgrab.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Paul's blog screen grab\" width=\"250\" height=\"232\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Folks have been posting up a storm lately (must be hiking season or something).  Let&#8217;s take a look: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adampaul.com\/2009\/07\/13\/joshua-treesocal-trip-part-vi-split-rock-hidden-valley\/\">Adam Paul<\/a> is posting great pix and commentary from the Southern California high country desert &#8212; (hey, it&#8217;s not  Joshua Tree&#8217;s fault that U2 became bloated and insufferable for a few years there.)  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.campingblogger.net\/camping\/gear\/backcountry-essentials.html\">CampingBlogger Roy Scribner<\/a> continues to ignore my example and insists on posting only useful information for camping people.  (This time he revisits the 10 Essentials; he mentioned his paratrooping days and I was hooping to see something lethal on his list. No such luck). <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mrhalfdome.wordpress.com\/\">Rick Deutsch,<\/a> now calling himself Mr. Half Dome, continues to find something Domeworthy to write about five days a week. His <a href=\"http:\/\/mrhalfdome.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/07\/how-to-get-down-the-cables\/\">technique for the cables <\/a>is must reading. <\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fedak.net\/albums\/SiegelGalena-page2.html\">John Fedak<\/a> is still trying to leave no Tahoe peak unbagged.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fedak.net\/photos\/SiegelGalena\/IMG_5845-standard.html\">This pic of wild horses<\/a> watching him hike is priceless. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/randomcuriosity.com\/journal\/archives\/001616.html\">David at Random Curiosity<\/a> reports on his trip to Hetch Hetchy at Yosemite. You must read to the end to find out why he thinks &#8220;Poopenaut Valley&#8221; is so amusing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timecheck00.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/backpacking-food-crunch-time-gotta-buy.html\">Ralph Alcorn <\/a>is getting all his food ready for the Pacific Crest Trail. He mentions a store nearby: &#8220;The Food Mill &#8211; our local bulk food store where I can pick from a dozen kinds of granola.&#8221; Somethings can only be had in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailspotting.com\/2009\/06\/mt-eddy-dead-fall-lakes.html\">Stuart at Trailspotting<\/a> profiles Mount Eddy and Dead Fall Lakes. He notes that it&#8217;s often still snowy there through the end of May (but makes it sound like we&#8217;ve got absolutely no excuse for not going now that the snow&#8217;s gone).\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncooped.com\/Chris-Weiss\/posts\/937-How-to-Survive-in-Rattlesnake-Country-Identification-and-Avoidance-\">Chris Weiss at Uncooped.com<\/a> tells how to cope with a rattlesnake encounter (pooping your pants in fear is not one of the recommended responses).\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weekendhike.com\/2009\/07\/ring-mountain.html\">Coe at Weekend Hike<\/a> urges us to check out Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve in Marin County (which includes, among other things, a view of San Quentin State Prison &#8212; a good thing to be several miles away from; also great views of the Bay and other cool stuff).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/free-entrance-to-national-parks-next-weekend-july-18-19\/\">John Soares<\/a> notes that National Parks are letting people in for free this weekend. So it&#8217;s true what they say about the best things in life.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yosemiteblog.com\/2009\/07\/13\/photo-of-the-day-fiery-evening-sky-tuolumne-meadows-by-g-dan-mitchell\/\">Yosemite Blog<\/a> posted one of Dan Mitchell&#8217;s beautiful Yosemite pictures.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wildrye.com\/\">Phil Houtz of Wild Rye<\/a> keeps building a great Southern California hiking\/backpacking\/adventuring blog. Definitely place for this one in your RSS list.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcetosea.net\/\">John Pugh&#8217;s Source to Sea <\/a>is a great blog about padding from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast and\/or hiking the Appalachian Trail (yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourcetosea.net\/sex-on-the-appalachian-trail\/\">there is sex there<\/a>). <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miguelvieira.org\/rememberedearth\/\">Miguel Vieira&#8217;s Remembered Earth<\/a> has been  profiling several great hikes around the Bay Area and beyond. Excellent photographs of the Redwoods. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Elsewhere on the Web: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trails.sierraclub.org\/\">The Sierra Club <\/a>has a new &#8220;trails wiki&#8221; that&#8217;s been getting a lot of coverage in the blogosphere.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campingblogger.net\/camping\/trips\/how-to-sierra-club-trails.html\">Camping Blogger <\/a> has it covered pretty well. <\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See, it ain&#8217;t all about me. Now get clicking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks have been posting up a storm lately (must be hiking season or something). Let&#8217;s take a look: Adam Paul is posting great pix and commentary from the Southern California high country desert &#8212; (hey, it&#8217;s not Joshua Tree&#8217;s fault&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/07\/15\/great-links-from-the-hiking-blogosphere\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}