He never says anything to provoke cutting remarks from the snark-o-sphere (must drive the poor kids at GoBlog batty). Here’s another interview with him in his hometown paper, the Boulder Daily Camera. Earnest, honest, straightforward, and even though I’ve never…
Monthly Archives: December 2007
More great Mount Diablo trails
by tom • December 4, 2007 • 0 Comments
Seth Adams of Savemountdiablo.org, which just issued a massive new hiking map of the area around Mount Diablo State Park, passed along some of his favorite Diablo hikes. … you’ve done some nice hikes, the loop around the summit is…
Hiking with dogs: everything you need to know
by tom • December 3, 2007 • 1 Comment
I found this page brimming with details on hiking and backpacking with dogs. It explains that the strongest breeds are slow walkers, and that hiking won’t necessarily ruin a dogs hips. It has tips on dog first aid, on whether…
More Southern Utah pix at calipidder.com
by tom • December 3, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rebecca posted her Bryce Canyon & Cedar Breaks galleries.
More gift ideas for outdoors types
by tom • December 3, 2007 • 0 Comments
Last week it was Texas; this week it’s Iowa. The Des Moines Register sent out a scouting mission. I liked these: Books “Spooky Campfire Stories,” retold by S.E. Schlosser. $12.95. Sportsman’s. “Hiking Iowa: A Guide to Iowa’s Greatest Hiking Adventures,”…
Greatest hits from last week’s comments
by tom • December 3, 2007 • 0 Comments
One of the biggest pluses of my redesign is the addition of a comments feed so all you RSS readers don’t have to be troubled with the extra clicks required to see what folks beside me are saying around here.…
Mission Peak from Ohlone College
by tom • December 3, 2007 • 9 Comments
I don’t go on many hikes that make me glad I’m done and wished I’d chosen wiser, but this was one of them. I’d hiked Mission Peak Regional preserve from every direction, save one: the parking lot at Ohlone College…
Hiking capital of the universe declared
by tom • December 2, 2007 • 4 Comments
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. — Douglas Adams I thought about declaring the San Francisco Bay Area the hiking capital of…