If you just can’t wait for the weekend to start, check out this slideshow video of the Appalachian Trail in 90 seconds: [youtube]bspnfvlxsFo[/youtube] From Two-Heel Drive via Old Goat’s Trail Journal.
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Gear Galore
The Salt Lake Tribune has a nice mini-roundup of some of the most interesting gear from the recent Outdoor Retailers convention. Stuff like creepy looking shoes with toes, an underpowered camera that straps to your kayak paddle, and a hiking boot made of yak leather. Also, there’s a modular backpack system that looks like it… Read more »
Review – Ricoh Caplio R5 Digital Camera
For several years, I’d been using an old Canon Powershot A70 as my all-purpose picture-taking device. Its 3.2 megapixels had served me well for a long time, and I had no reason to complain … other than the bulky shape, the awkward weight, and the fact that for some reason it started putting odd black… Read more »
Outdoor Shots
The Flickr set of Ed Sharron will make you green with envy. Not only will you be jealous of the Park Ranger / Naturalist / Photographer’s incredible access to some of the country’s most amazing landscapes and wildlife, but you’ll also be jealous that he takes such incredible pictures.
Condor Peak
A long-distance trail, his hike has just about everything that makes hiking in Southern California great. Stream crossings and boulder scramblings, sycamore groves and chaparral, shady canyons, waterfalls, mountain peaks and more. And you don’t even have to hike the whole way to see it. NOTE: This trail was heavily damaged in the Station Fire… Read more »
A River Reborn?
I still remember the first time I saw the Los Angeles River. It looked and smelled like a sewer, walled-in by concrete and lined with garbage, beer cans, shopping carts and mattresses. A chain link, barbed-wire fence surrounded both sides, not that anyone would ever want to get down closer to it. Not surprising, I… Read more »
More Good News From Climatologists
So you know all of that ‘uncertainty’ that supposedly exists among the scientific community regarding climate change? Well, not only did it not exist five years ago, but now it really doesn’t exist. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fourth Report today, which says humans are “very likely” the cause for… Read more »
Slimmed Down Safety Beacons
Rocky from The Goat sent me a heads up on newly-svelte ACR MicroFix Personal Locater Beacon due out this spring. In case you don’t know, these little gizmos are basically the outdoorsman’s Ultimate Panic Button. If you’re about to kick the bucket in the Great Outdoors, you activate your beacon and it sends out an… Read more »
The Blurs or the Shakes?
We’ve all had that experience. We get a nice snapshot lined up, we bunker down, hold our breath, and hit the shutter. The pic looks fine on the LCD, but when we get back home, it’s full of blurs. Bummer. The venerable Digital Photography School has a quick post on how to easily tell if… Read more »
Delayed
The 60% Geek in me has been wrapped up in work and the exploding Aqua-Gate scandal. I’ll be back with some hikin’ news soon. Promise.