Tom Mangan on Starting Your Own Blog

John Muir's letters, essays and books tell of his adventures in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and are widely read today.

John Muir's letters, essays and books are still widely read today

Tom Mangan wrote a couple of good posts yesterday on his Bay Area Hiking Blog, Two-Heel Drive, about starting your own blog. Tom says that documenting your hiking experience and sharing it with the rest of the world is a great way to connect with other interested hikers.

Heck, if John Muir were alive to day, he would have a blog. How do I know? Because the only thing as voluminous as Muir’s backcountry travels was the volume of his writings documenting them.

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Choosing the Best Camping Spots

Today's online resources can help you choose the best campsite within a particular campground

Today's online resources can help you pick the best campsite within a particular campground

One of the popular posts here on CampingBlogger is Find Great Campsites Online, where I talk about using online resources like Reserve America and Recreation.Gov for locating campgrounds in a particular area. Finding that perfect campground is only half the battle, though. It is just as important to locate the best camping spots within the campground, too.

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CamelBak Better Bottle – Lose the Bottled Water

The CamelBak Better Bottle is available with 90-degree twist-tops, fixed and foding bite-valves and a traditional screw-off top.

The CamelBak Better Bottle is available with 90-degree twist-tops, fixed and foding bite-valves and a traditional screw-off top.

You cannot fault its rather simplistic name as gimmickry; the CamelBak® Better Bottle really looks like it is a better bottle. Made from a new plastic called Eastman Tritan™, these bottles are safe for cold or hot liquids, they hold up just fine in the dishwasher and they are very impact resistant. The Better Bottles are BPA-free, so whichever side of that argument you fall on, you will not have to worry about it with these. They also do not contain any phthalates, which is an additive used to make some plastics more pliable.

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Get your WordPress Blog to Validate

Getting your WordPress Blog to validate can be a challenge

Getting your WordPress Blog to validate can be a challenge

If you look at the bottom of CampingBlogger you will see the boilerplate copywrite information followed by a couple of weird links; XHTML 1.0 and CSS Level 2.1. These links go to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) who sets standards and guidelines on how to code Web pages and offers a free validation service that can check any Web page for meeting W3C standards.

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