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UPDATE: Steve Sergeant posted a terrific Wildebeat audiocast on this last year - The Poop on Mount Whitney

Pack out what you pack in.
This is the age-old outdoor rule. And here, taking this decree to the extreme, is a good friend of mine who recently climbed Mt. Whitney in California.
I’ll let you guess what he’s packing […]

One of the great joys of the outdoors is enjoying the changing skies.

From the pig with six legs to the Starship Enterprise - the amazing shapes people see in the clouds
Have you ever looked at a cloud and been convinced it looked exactly like a human face? Or a skateboarder? Or even the “Cloudship” […]

I already posted a trip report with my photos. And a trip video. A spaceman. And related posts.
Then trip leader Dave Hayley mails me a DVD with ALL the photos from our 7 hikers. (Here Dave was either eating Wasabi peas or shooting himself in the face with bear spray. Not sure.)
YEESH.
What could […]

Perhaps LL Bean should advertise on this blog after all. They are going to need some good will after this spoof newscast.
The CEO of L.L. Bean pleads with black leaders to forgive his company for whatever it’s done to cause this decades-long boycott.
Click PLAY or watch it on The Onion News Network. African […]

Having visited the Nazca Lines in Peru, George Novak believes he’s spotted another extraterrestrial image.
In the Tombstone mountains, do you see the spaceman waving in alien spacecraft?

hike trip report - Tombstone Range, Yukon

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The Adventure Junkie of The Adventure Blog keeps close tabs on what’s happening in Africa (and the rest of the world).
His recent post Adventure On Mount Kenya caught my eye. It links to Matthew Power’s project to re-enact the Mt Kenya climb of British prisoners of war in 1943. (That “escape” was documented […]

Craig Stanton is done.
He’s finished the Pacific Crest Trail.
I’ve never hiked longer than 11-days. But I empathize with all thru-hikers that must exit the simplicity of trail life. And rejoin the real world.

That shower felt so good. The dirt left me and I shall not stink that much for a very long time. […]

The JMT is our #2 hike in the World, about 220mi of trail without crossing a road.
I’ve been section hiking it over the past 3yrs. This summer I thought I’d try to knock off about 110 miles.
I brashly announced I’d hike 20mi / day from Bishop Pass to Tuolumne in 6 or 7 […]

Tech pundit Robert Scoble announced that Microsoft was making big improvements in their search engine.
In the past Microsoft was terrible, giving a much lower ranking to specialized sites like besthike.com than did Google.
Scoble might be right. Here’s the result for a Microsoft Live Search for “best hike South America”.

Way to go Microsoft! […]

Another great post by Tom Mangan:

This could well be the best time of the year to drop in on the Point Lobos State Preserve south of Carmel — with lingering summery warmth but just enough of the fog layer remaining to make things interesting.
… Point Lobos tends to be redundantly spectacular — there’s a dozen […]