So you may have been asking yourself over the past few days, “hey where’s Casey? Why hasn’t he written about trails or hiking lately?”
If you thought it was due to the life-altering stress of searching for a new apartment, or the back-to-back one-two punches of E3 and ComicCon coverage, you’d be close — but wrong.
It’s rats. Plague rats. In the Angeles National Forest.
Like most things that decimated populations hundreds of years ago, the plague is pretty easily cured nowawdays, so this won’t actually keep me out of the mountains. Those other things might, though.
Our annual coverage of the E3 Expo kicked off last night, which means I will be in various control booths or writer hermitages for the next few days.
Posting has been / will continue to be very light for the next few days. Once I get out of this bleary-eyed gamer haze and back on the trail, I’ll pick back up where I left off.
Until then, enjoy these panoramic quicktime photos of trail locations, via the Goat, and a collection of videos from this year’s PCT, via simplehiker.
I’ll be keeping them both running in the background while I write about graphics, franchises, and processors. See you in a bit!
Today is 07-07-07. For some, a lucky day to pick up a lottery ticket. For others, a good day to stage a worldwide concert event on all of the 7 continents to raise awareness about the climate crisis.
On the Live Earth web site, you can stream live footage from all of the world’s concerts, as well as watch some educational shorts and read up on how minor changes over large groups of people can have an enormous effect. The traditional ‘get involved’ section of the site is all about promising to change a few bulbs to CFLs, shopping for energy efficient appliances, and making sure everything is turned off when you leave your apartment or house. Really, all stuff we should be doing anyway.
So if you’ve got some time today, check out one of the webcasts, learn up on some practical ways to green your life, and sign the Live Earth Pledge, which demands our government start taking this issue seriously, and asks us to look for ways to help as individuals, too.
At the very least, try to check out the band from Antarctica - Nunatak. If there’s something I can get behind more than a worldwide concert for climate change, it’s a band playing outside a sub-zero research station composed entirely of scientists.
A short, meandering trip on the Silver Moccasin Trail into an historic horse-thief hideout. Plenty of incredible boulder formations, pine forests, and nice views of the interior San Gabriels.
Continue reading ‘Hiking Mount Hillyer’
Over the weekend, I climbed Mount Hillyer - my 25th peak over 5000 feet - and now qualify for membership in the Sierra Club’s Hundred Peaks Chapter! That’s one New Year’s Resolution down, several more to go.
But as it’s a big number, I thought I’d take a peek at how I’m doing so far this year. Also, GPS programs make it easy and fun to keep track of all sorts of fun numbers. So here’s the first half of 2007:
Hikes done: 19
Total Mileage: 168.15 miles - 72.23 uphill, 78.07 downhill, 14.96 level
Total Ascent: 66,805 feet
Time Spent Hiking: 5 days, 12 hours, 28 minutes.
To put that in perspective, for the entire year of 2006, I hiked 234 miles with just under 47,000 feet of incline. So I could be doing better, but I’m definitely going to destroy last year’s numbers.
Hopefully.
Here’s to another six months of high-quality hiking time!
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