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4WheelBob on ABC News
Herr Coomber made the nightly news last night. Couldn’t help noticing the grass was mostly green when the video was shot — nice of them to get around to airing it. (A slow news day means a shortage of death, destruction, infamy and depra...
Search on for missing Yosemite backpacker
Yosemite Blog posted an announcement yesterday that Joshua Gunther, 34, was supposed to be out of the park Sunday after a weeklong backpacking trip from the Ostrander Lakes trail head. The announcement says only that he acquired a permit to enter the...
Authorities identify hiker who died yesterday at Santa Teresa County Park
This rather lurid report from the local NBC affiliate has the most details on the passing of hiker Linda Fradkin, 57, of San Mateo, who died yesterday at Santa Theresa County Park. Condolences to her family and friends. If you knew her, you can leav...
Yet another hiker dies at Half Dome
UPDATE III: A friend of a couple who witnessed the accident posted this account. ### UPDATE II: Rick Deutsch of Hike Half Dome was on the dome Saturday. He was well on his way down — hiking in full rain — when he saw the rescue helico...
Ken Knight’s adventure on the Appalachian Trail
Most of you already know the story: Ken Knight, nearly blind production editor at BackpackingLight magazine, disappeared a week ago today on the Appalachian Trail near Buena Vista, Virginia. On his seventh day of wandering he decided to light a sign...
This just in: Supreme Court justice retiring to get more hikes in
Turns out Justice David Souter is an outdoorsman who wants to get in more hours on the dirt. From today’s New York Times: Friends said Thursday evening that he had often spoken of his intentions to be the court’s first retirement if Mr. Obam...
750,000 California acres get wilderness designation
This morning’s Mercury News covers President Obama’s signing of legislation that gives official wilderness protection to 2.1 million acres across the United States. With Obama’s signature, wilderness designation was extended to roug...
Someday soon we’ll be able to hike to the top of Mount Umunhum
So says Paul Rogers in this morning’s Mercury News. After more than 22 years of bureaucratic inaction, efforts to clean up a former Air Force radar station on a scenic mountaintop above Silicon Valley and open its summit to hikers, bicyclists ...
Updates on those who lost homes in last summer’s fires
This morning’s Mercury News has a couple nice stories exploring the contrasts among those whose homes were destroyed in 2008 wildfires. Those hit by the Trabing Fire in Larkin Valley near Santa Cruz are getting their households back together. ...
Hiker survives two nights lost in Henry Cowell Redwoods
A hiker took her dog hiking in the Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. The dog got her lost, but also kept her alive. The woman, Darlene Luckenbach of Santa Cruz, spent the first night snuggled with her dog for warmth, Ynez said. Fr...
Take a bow, 4WheelBob
Herr Coomber is profiled yet again by the Chron. He got the nickname because he was regularly spotted pushing his wheelchair up mountains, down rocky gorges and along dusty trails in out-of-the-way places. He has been on virtually every hiking trail...
