Steve sums up the situation on at Yosemite’s Half Dome, interviewing hikers, national parks people and “Hike Half Dome” author Rick Deutsch. Steve covers the bases — is it safe, is it really a wilderness experience, etc. — and talks…
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Latest Hikes column: Alum Rock Park
by tom • November 15, 2007 • 0 Comments
Posted today at mercurynews.com: Created by an act of the Legislature in 1872, the park is tucked into a canyon on San Jose’s eastern edge. Trails to the top of the canyon walls offer impressive views of civilization to the…
Hiking Slovenia
by tom • November 14, 2007 • 1 Comment
Stumbled across a blog post from some folks who had some fun in the hills of the Balkans. The lake has a castle on one side, an Island Church in the middle, and is absolutely stunning. Unfortunately, they do not…
Oil spill shifting with winds, tides
by tom • November 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
So far the spectacular Point Reyes National Seashore has been mostly spared from oil contamination because of last week’s oil spill, but all that could change, depending on the winds and the waves. From a Marin Independent Journal story: A…
I now have a comments feed
by tom • November 12, 2007 • 0 Comments
Click here to subscribe to it I’m pretty much done tweaking stuff now … got most of my ads on the right side and the blog posts on the left — theoretically this design will also make the site easier…
No visit to Angel Island for us
by tom • November 12, 2007 • 0 Comments
Turns out it’s closed till further notice because of last week’s oil spill. If you see any more news about how this spill is affecting local beaches, please leave a comment and share with the rest of the class. (Here’s…
Just a quick pic
by tom • November 11, 2007 • 2 Comments
Showed off the sights at Mount Madonna County Park, saw some cool fog and sun.
Rejiggering the page…
by tmangan • November 9, 2007 • 2 Comments
Hope this doesn’t cause too much annoyance… I want to put all the content on the left hand side and leave some space on the right for crass commercialism.
New York Times on alternative fuels
by tmangan • November 9, 2007 • 1 Comment
A story at nytimes.com describes the business of finding other things to burn besides petroleum-based stuff: For years, scientists have known that the building blocks in plant matter