I wrote about Santa Clara County’s Healthy Trails Challenge awhile back, before it was possible to register for the challenge — which asks county residents to take five hikes in the next year, log the experience, mail in the log…
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Road-tripping to Bodega Bay
by tmangan • October 26, 2007 • 1 Comment
Contra Costa Times has a story about taking a scenic drive up to Bodega Bay, which Alfred Hitchcock defamed for all eternity in “The Birds.” Mile 20 Sonoma Coast State Beach, Bodega Head: Stretch your legs at this rugged promontory…
Fire danger closes Las Padres National Forest
by tmangan • October 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
The huge national forest running down the California Coast has been closed because of all the So-Cal fires. Due to extreme fire danger, the entire Los Padres National Forest has been closed to the public, a move that may be…
Utterly unrelated to hiking, but…
by tmangan • October 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
I stumbled across the blog of an Ontario writer who calls the site Burning Silo. The account of how the blog got its name is a hoot. The main page does have some excellent outdoor pix from a visit to…
Pointless but amusing fun of the day
by tmangan • October 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Design your own Doc Martens boot. Here’s one compelling entry: Just off hand, I’d suggest not putting pictures of loved ones on your boots, though I can see how one with, say, George W. Bush’s mug might move a few…
Hunting and hiking in the Warner Wilderness
by tmangan • October 23, 2007 • 0 Comments
The editor of the Chico Enterprise recounts eight days in the South Warner Wilderness of Modoc County, way up in far northern California: I got to sit at the base of a frozen 300-foot waterfall and listen to it break…
Plastics piling up in the Pacific Ocean
by tmangan • October 23, 2007 • 2 Comments
A story in the Chron notes that a massive flotilla of disposed plastic is littering the Pacific Ocean between the West Coast and Hawaii: The enormous stew of trash – which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5…
Getting kids outdoors, revisited
by tmangan • October 23, 2007 • 5 Comments
An oceanographer’s blog mentions “Last Child in the Woods” and discusses an issue we got into here last week: Wilderness is in the eye of the beholder, and it doesn’t necessarily take a visit to a Yosemite to launch an…
Off-leash areas in the GGNRA
by tmangan • October 23, 2007 • 0 Comments
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which administers tons of open space around San Francisco, is working up new guidelines for where folks can let their dogs go off-leash. A blog for local pet owners has an update on what’s going…