Category: blogs

In case you missed it, our preeminent hiking blogger Tom Mangan is moving from California to North Carolina.

He may later relocate from there. It’s lack-of-work related. Or he may start blogging the great N.E.

Good luck, Tom.

His vast archive is still available at Two-Heel Drive.

Even if you don’t have a twitter account, it can be useful as a real time search engine.

The results are much different … and far more up-to-date … than Google.

How Twitter Search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends.

CommonCraft.com

CLICK play or watch the short explanation on YouTube.

Finally jumping on the band wagon.

Leave a comment if you can recommend twitterers focused on hiking. We’d like to follow them.

by site editor Rick McCharles

Should I feel honoured?

We’ve been selected for a Tripbase award for …

… providing one of the best Walking/Backpacking-related blogs out there. …

We feel your blog is an excellent example of what a blog should be and trust that you feel proud in this respect. We congratulate you on your achievement and are providing you with a badge to display proudly at your own discretion on your blog as a sign that you are in the top echelons of the blogosphere. …

We were selected in a 10-way-tie for 11th place. (Not exactly the top of the podium.)

Still, there are some excellent hiking blogs on the list including:

2nd http://www.tommangan.net/twoheeldrive/
3rd http://www.tripleblaze.com/blog/
4th http://gambolinman.blogspot.com/
5th http://www.hikingtaiwan.blogspot.com/
9th http://www.floridahikes.com/blog/
Finalist http://frankinoz.blogspot.com/
Finalist http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/

Unfortunately, Tripbase has combined hiking blogs with backpacking blogs. This award winner: Students in Europe truly has nothing to do with what Tom Mangan writes about, hiking.

I won’t get too excited about my 11th place (tie) ranking until Tripbase separates hiking from backpacking.

I’ll exercise discretion.

I’ve been cheering this guy who promises to post 100 hikes between May 4th, 2009 and the New Year.

I, Kolby Kirk, promise to hike one hundred times by January 1st, 2010.

Just so I’m clear with you and myself, here is my own version of the legal fine print:

A “hike” is defined as a trek of two miles or longer over mostly unpaved paths. There will not be any “hikes” to the store.

Each hike must have a definitive end before the next one starts. In other words, I can’t say that I’ve gone on two hikes because I stopped for water at the half way point of a four-mile hike. However, I might go on more than one hike in a day, such as on a camping trip or before and after work.

Proof of a hike must be posted on this site to count. “Proof” is defined as a photo, video, or GPS tracking. This will keep myself from cheating …

Hopefully those of you who are reading this will help in my quest to complete one-hundred hikes by suggesting hikes I could take in the Southern California area or, better yet, going on hikes with me. Either way, wish me luck! …

about 100 Hikes

Subscribe to his blog. Or follow him on Twitter.

He’s very good.

Szu-ting Yi recently launched an online network of bloggers called … Outdoor Bunnies.

You may know Szu-ting Yi as LittlePo.

The name of her new site itself may draw undesirable lurkers. Most will go away when they realize the kind of bunnies on display.

… Outdoor Bunnies is the safe and supportive community for women of the wilderness (outdoor bunnies) to connect and grow with each other. At Outdoor Bunnies, outdoor bunnies share their thoughts, insights, emotions, and wisdom inspired by their outdoor endeavors. Its purpose is to empower fellow bunnies to take initiatives to pursue wilderness adventures, to engage intellectually with nature, or to simply enjoy what the great outdoors has to offer. …

Outdoor Bunnies Launch Statement

home page – Outdoor Bunnies

The site is hosted by WordPress using BuddyPress. Members can add their own blogs, if they wish. Very cool.

I am subscribed. And have added the new site in the right hand navigation under BLOGS.