I’ve built a permanent link in the right hand rail for the Google Maps mash-up.

| Here’s the link.

Also, awhile back I created a custom Bay Area Hiking Search Engine that searches only sites related to hiking in Northern California (such as Jane Huber’s bahiker.com, Kevin Gong’s hiking pages, local park districts like the Midpeninsula Open Space Authority and all of our favorite hiking blogs — Two-Heel Drive is excluded because there’s a separate search box for it already).

Here’s the search box, also located in the right hand rail.

This box should let you search on Northern California’s Bay Area without distraction of all those other bay areas in the world.