Day January 18, 2004

The mountains can be unforgiving They found the body of the missing hiker (mentioned here previously.) The body of a 53-year-old hiker missing since New Year’s Day on Mt. Baldy was found Saturday about 900 feet below where rescuers believed…

Ultralight backpacking My recent post about the perils of wilderness areas with treacherous trails and mountain lions has perversely rekindled my interest in backpacking! I’ve done several wilderness trips in the past, usually in the High Sierras, through the amazing…

Health benefits extended for grocery strikers In a welcome move, PacificCare and Kaiser are extending health care benefits for the strikers to February. and March respectively, in effect giving the unions a loan. This is because the Greedy Three companies…