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This blogger site is now defunct.Please update your links to http://www.modernhiker.com, to continue to see this site in all its WordPress-enabled glory.Thanks!

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I don't surf.Hell, I can barely even tolerate the beach. And if I am at one, it better be of the rocky, inhospitable sort, like the coasts of Maine or Big Sur.But if I did, for some reason, perhaps in the future, decide to take up surfing, I would want to learn while wearing the $460 Headzone Helmet. It's basically a fancy helmet with a waterproof radio, so whoever's teaching me can do so from

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How many times have you found yourself on the trail in need of a little photo-stabilization device? If you're too cheap to buy a Gorillapod, and you're ok with letting your camera teeter ominously on top of a water bottle, the fifty cent solution over at Instructables might be just what the doctor ordered.You know, the shady doctor with the laser jet diploma. That guy.

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I want an important part of this site to be the trail write-ups I've been doing for the past year over at the old site, except with more technical information and guidance buried in with my rambling observations.So, after picking up a new GPS, I decided to test it out (and inaugurate the new site) with the Hike That Got Me Hiking - Sandstone Peak.When I first started hiking here, I'd been doing

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If you're like me, one of the reasons you go hiking is to try to capture some awe-inspiring digital photos of your experience. Grand vistas, sweeping mountain ranges, and ... bugs?The Digital Photography School has a great write-up on macro photography for digital cameras up right now. For those not in the know, macro is the art of eschewing the traditional mountaintop shots for super close ups

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'Ultralight' is the big buzzword among hikers and campers, and for good reason. As soon as you get that backpack strapped to your body, you immediately start wishing you had lighter versions of everything you own.So what do you do if you want to end your day at camp damaging a few brain cells with the wonderful liquid known as alcohol, but you don't want to deal with the additional liquid weight

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From one of this week's Writers' Almanacs:“I turn for solace to rivers, rain, trees, birds, lakes, animals. If things are terrible beyond conception and I walk for 25 miles in the forest, they seem to go away for a while.”- Jim Harrison, author.

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The EPA granted California permission to require small engines (which generally have dirtier emissions than their larger cousins) to have catalytic converters that cut smog by 40%.The law goes into effect January 1st. Every little bit helps.

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Eagle Mountain is a well-preserved, fairly recently operating ghost town. It's privately held land just southeast of Joshua Tree National Park, surrounded on three sides by federal property. It was once a mining town. Then, when that got unprofitable, it became a prison site. Now that's gone, so the owners are trying to turn it into a dump.According to the Associated Press, the owners already

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I made the mistake of reading and believing in the National Weather Service's reports for southern California last night. Rain was already falling in Los Angeles late Saturday night, and the reports said it would continue into Sunday afternoon, with 1-3 inches of snow in the upper elevations of the San Gabriels.So I unset my alarm and prepared to sleep in on Sunday for a change. When I did wake

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This is a test post for the test blog I am currently in the testing phase with.If you stumbled here for some reason, please pardon the experimentation.

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