Month: June 2009
More than hype: Choosing your tropical hiking shoes
Choosing your hiking shoes is some sort of a personal cult for most. Mine, is based more on comfort and practicality. My feet went through an evolution (sometimes a devolution) of hiking footwear from hype to comfort and back to hype in the four years of hiking the tropical forests. I’m not belittling the locally made, quality...
Five reasons that dampen my desires to climb.
The summer is over and I have not accomplished any major climb this vacation. Unlike the previous summer and save for one beacheneering with Ligaya, Talakudong Mountaineer stayed most of the time close to home. Obviously, I missed my outdoor gigs. I (we) actually planned for a 3 day climb to Mt. Parker and to …...
