Tom Mangan at Two-Heel Drive and others are organizing a Northern California meet-up of outdoor bloggers.
Ho Down update. These are the confirmed bloggers for the Mt. Shasta meetup: Little PoTrout Underground Fedak Wine Hiker GoBlog Best Hikes GoBlog has also invited every biking blogger on earth, but has no takers so far. Note that [...]
Plant, Dawn, Mono Lake. September 10, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
By now you have undoubtedly heard about the new version of Survivor intended to appeal to racist preconceptions by pitting “racial teams” against one another.
What an astoundingly offensive and stupid idea.
For one small example of where this leads, here is a description of Rush Limbaugh’s take on this contrived and utterly phony “competition” as [...]
Dawn, South Tufa, Mono Lake. September 10, 2006, © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Technical note: This is a composite of four eight-megapixel photographs, resulting in an image that should produce a very quality 20″ x 30″ print. (There is also a black and white version. I’ll post it soon.)
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I just returned from a three-day pack trip out of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. While descending cross-country from a ridge above Vogelsang Pass (the ridge running between Fletcher and Parsons peaks) one of my REI Peak UL trekking poles simple snapped in two in the lower section. At something like $120/pair I was [...]
Shoreline Plant, Dawn, Mono Lake. September 10, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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Lupine. Yosemite National Park. July 23, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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Morning Light, Mono Lake. July 3, 2006. © copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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In an astounding example of poor taste (or lack of editorial oversight?), SFGate writer Debra Saunders slices and dices recently-deceased Australian “crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin (see “Crocodile Tears“):
… “I don’t want to seem arrogant or big-headed,” Irwin once told the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi, “but I have a real instinct with animals. I’ve grown up [...]
Vogelsang, Fletcher Lake, and Elsewhere | September 2006
Every September before I head back to my teaching job I like to take a short solo pack trip, almost always in Tuolumne Meadows region of Yosemite Park and usually to the Fletcher Lake area. So this year’s trip was over mostly familiar ground, but with a few interesting variations.
(Note: I’m posting text-only now, but [...]