Tom at Two-Heel Drive is preparing to switch from many daily posts to one major weekly post. Here’s a bit of what he has to say for himself:
Reinvention time. OK, so all my hard work of the last 20 months (OK, goofing off, but still…) has earned me an audience of about 200 [...]
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 [...]
Tom of Two-Heel Drive shared a couple of posts that caught my eye yesterday. First, he reports that…
The Walkies. Elizabeth King, keeper of the Walktopia blog, dropped me an e-mail this morning reporting she had named Two-Heel Drive the Best Hiking Blog…
Congratulations, Tom!
Then, he tips his dusty and a bit sweaty hiking hat to one [...]
Putting their lives on the line to keep others safe in Yosemite
A story in SFGate about Yosemite Search and Rescue:
Once little more than a rag-tag group of climbers who volunteered to help rangers in emergencies, a separate search and rescue program was established by the park service in Yosemite in 1974. It is now a [...]
Actually, he outed himself. (Hey, if I had done what he did I think I’d want to take credit, too! :-)
Read more at Yosemite Blog or read the first person account:
The Snowmen Maker Reveals Himself.
So if you’re curious about the snowmen that mysteriously appeared on the Yosemite Association webcam one day in early March you’re [...]
Yosemite Blog has more information and possibly a photo of the snow man builder:
A Man and a Snowman.
Dawn sent me [a snow cam photo] of what might possibly be the Anonymous Snowman Maker…
For a long time I’ve thought it would be fun to do something like this, but it never got past the ‘thinking about’ [...]
Tom Mangan at Two-Heel Drive reports:
4wheelbob.com is up and running. Bob Coomber, California Outdoors Hall of Fame Inductee, has his long-awaited Web site up. Bob, as you’ll recall, has a seriously nasty kind of diabetes that makes it impossible to use his legs, so he hikes with his hands, arms and wheels.
“…Challenging oneself [...]
Yosemite Blog:
Now Appearing. If you’ve been reading Yosemite Blog with any regularity then you’ve probably heard me mention Misha Logvinov several times. Well now Misha’s awesome photos of the Yosemite high country have caught someone else’s eye, the editors of National Geographic Adventure magazine. Misha’s photo [see the link] of Mathes Crest is [...]
My buddy Owen Lee provided this photo of himself and George at the top of… Mt. Diablo with full backcountry ski gear on Saturday, March 4, 2006
Skiing Diablo. March 4, 2006. Courtesy of Owen Lee. ©
Owen reports that George was able to ski all of about 20 feet along the road way at one point…
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From Stephen’s Web:
When I walked on the ice of Denali
My fingers froze
But if I do not walk on the sacred ground
My heart does
A simple sentiment that I can relate to.
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