Chalk this up to market capitalism: when you hike for pay you do things like: Go solo because you can’t afford to be distracted. Walk fast but stop constantly to take scads of meticulously framed pictures in the hope that…
Montebello Ridge Trail
Latest hikes column: Monte Bello Open Space
by tom • July 3, 2008 • 0 Comments
From this morning’s Mercury News: If you’ve got a mind to do one crazy thing this summer, try hiking in the hot sun at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve. The park in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Los Altos…
Change-of-plans hike: Monte Bello Open Space Preserve
by tom • June 16, 2008 • 11 Comments
So, how did I end up strolling through the blazing sun at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve after I told everybody yesterday I was hitting the redwoods at Pescadero Creek County Park? Two things, both motivated by greed: 1) Pescadero…
First hike of 2007
by tmangan • January 1, 2007 • 2 Comments
Silicon Valley humor that nobody else would find humorous: We’ve hiked six miles at Montebello Open Space Preserve and we’re resting up at a trail stop close to the parking lot. A philosophical discussion of Karma arises (nothing but the…
Time for their close-up
by tmangan • January 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
What’ll people do to get on television? We found out a bit on Saturday when K half of the FOMFOK hiking group, and a friend of hers from work, took to the Santa Cruz Mountains to prepare their entry video…
New year, new hike.
by tmangan • January 1, 2005 • 0 Comments
First thing I did on New Year’s morning was look outside to see how bad the weather was. It’s been crappy for a solid week, and I was feeling so cooped-up that I’d have gone out in a monsoon, just…