Thanks to Tom Mangan’s participation as a member of the Bob’s support crew, the San Jose Mercury News was able to put together a nice story about 4WheelBob’s hike to the top of 14,000′+ White Mountain. Tom’s links are below:
Mercury News profiles 4WheelBob
Mike Cassidy talked to Bob this week and the story ended up on [...]
As if on cue to reinforce my previous post’s observation about California’s dry weather year, the Weather Service is now predicting a very-unusual-around-these-parts chance of thunderstorms over the Central California coast today. From an article in SFGate:
Tropical moisture wandering up from Central California is predicted to make its way into the South Bay and East [...]
San Francisco (and SFGate) outdoors writer Paul McHugh is moving on to other adventures:
California’s great outdoors still will be around after Saturday. But I won’t. Well, not at this particular newspaper, I mean. After 22 years of pounding the outdoors beat for The Chronicle - and sometimes getting pounded by it - I’m about [...]
Two Forests, Bighorn Plateau. Sierra Nevada, California. August 9, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
This photo is from a place that I regard as one of the most intriguing locations in the Sierra Nevada, the area near Tawny Point on the Bighorn Plateau along the John Muir Trail (JMT) just north of Mt. Whitney. This [...]
Actually, I don’t think either is quite right, but just for fun…
Roald Amundsen. “Adventure is just bad planning.” [Quotes of the Day]
G. K. Chesterton. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” [Quotes of the Day]
You’ll have to pardon me for the string of 4WheelBob links, but a) I’ve met him, b) I’m incredibly impressed with his accomplishment, and c) I happen to know Tom Mangan, a member of his support team and outdoor blogger:
4WheelBob describes his epic hike. Bob Coomber shares the gritty details in a forum at Backpacker.com: [...]
For nearly two weeks now I’ve been meaning to start writing up the two longish Sierra Nevada pack trips I took earlier this summer, but life and the major task of describing two weeks of trail travel and putting together the photos have held me back. Rather than continuing to wait, I’ve decided to start [...]
Tom Mangan has posted more info about 4WheelBob’s ascent of White Mountain. Here’s a brief excerpt - follow the link for lots more good stuff!
Favorite images from our White Mountain adventure. If you’re too busy to check out all 48 pictures posted at Flickr.com, I’m posting some of the faves. At some point I [...]
The New York times posts a story well worth reading:
As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes. China’s pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents. By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY. [NYT > Home Page]
A Good - But Really, Really Bad - Web Site for Fire Conditions
Tom Mangan reports at Two-Heel Drive:
Fire news blog. California Fire News could use a visual-appeal consultant, but the content’s there. Has tons of news headlines and weather reports (still in all-caps, the way the National Weather Service likes it). [Two-Heel Drive]
Content, yes. Visual (and aural!) appeal? GACK!
The text doesn’t line up and [...]
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