In what I think is an unavoidable side effect of importing and republishing some articles from the old version of this site, there seems to be a steady stream of old posts appearing in the RSS feed. Sorry about that…
Backpacking icon dies:
Colin Fletcher, a backpacking guru who wrote the book on the art of a good walk, died Tuesday at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. He was 85.
I think it is fair to say that Colin Fletcher’s writings had the earliest and biggest effect on my developing interest in backpacking when I was [...]
I’ve taken steps that should move this site to a new hosting service sometime in the next few hours. If all works more or less as planned the following should happen:
The home page URL should stay the same: http://outside.danmitchell.org/.
The stories and photographs currently on the site may disappear for awhile as I do some complicated [...]
Yosemite Blog reports:
Tuolumne Campground Opens for Season - Tuolumne campground is now open and in operation. Sites are available on a first come-first served basis until July 14th when 1/2 the campground will be open for reservations.
Looks like good timing for me since I’ll have some time during the first weeks of July.
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Yosemite Blog reports:
Tuolumne Campground Opens for Season - Tuolumne campground is now open and in operation. Sites are available on a first come-first served basis until July 14th when 1/2 the campground will be open for reservations.
Looks like good timing for me since I’ll have some time during the first weeks of July.
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I saw post at Trailcraft today about the idea of taking a daypack along on your pack trips. This is not as wacky an idea as it might seem, at least if you take a few layover days and explore the surrounding terrain.
I used to carry pretty heavy “old school” internal frame packs. (Before [...]
This site is now running on a new host and a new blogging system. Much of the old content survived the transition - but I seem to have temporarily lost many 2007 posts and photographs, and links within the site are hosed. Ah, well.
I hope to spend some additional time tweaking the converted site over [...]
Outdoorsy thoughts on this early June weekend… that I’m spending indoors.
About that “indoors” business… Two factors are conspiring to keep me inside on this beautiful feels-like-summer spring weekend. First, we’re nearing the end of the term at the college where I teach and the grading and other work has been stacking up. So this weekend [...]
A post at favorite oboe player’s blog got me thinking about the notion of fun today and why I love to do things that are sometimes quite hard and challenging:
I don’t always go to movies to have fun. I don’t go to concerts to have fun either. I have fun when I go to Disneyland. [...]
Temporary Archive of Old Site
I have temporarily archived the old dan’s outside web site content at outside.danmitchell.net.