If you’ve done your civic duty and purchased Barb Egbert’s book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with her husband and 10-year-old daughter, now’s your chance to see the clan in person at a series of free events at South…
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Stone kinky
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 1 Comment
Supertopo, the climbers’ board, has a thread showing rock formations that look like naughty bits. Silly but amusing. Wonder if this one from the Pinnacles qualifies: Link via GoBlog (of course).
More Bay Area wildflower links
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 1 Comment
Sunset magazine’s Fresh Dirt blog has a bunch of pretty pictures and tips for finding flowery goodness. The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District holds multiple guided walks each weekend at their dozens of protected swaths of open space on the…
Wildflowers and more from Henry Coe State Park
by tom • March 18, 2008 • 5 Comments
It’s not exactly a riot of color out there just yet, but there’s plenty for alert eyes to see. Oddly enough I’m still not seeing many California poppies in parks this season, but keep seeing tons growing along roads —…
Useful site: survivaltopics.com
by tom • March 18, 2008 • 0 Comments
This site has a wealth of handy info. What it’s about: Survival Topics strives to be a hands-on survival skills website. Rather than just write up the same old stuff you find copied from books and other websites, we actually…
Finding people to hike with at Meetup.com
by tom • March 18, 2008 • 6 Comments
Meetup.com has scads of hiking groups, including quite a few in the Bay Area. These are the most promising ones I scouted out this morning: Related links Etiquette for group hikes Hiking clubs of note in the Bay Area Oakland…
Hiking shoe shopping — a refresher course
by tom • March 17, 2008 • 8 Comments
My REI dividend (all $11 of it — see what a careful consumer I was last year?) was burning a hole in my pocket, and the added incentive of the annual 20 percent off sale was enough to get me…
Beyond the Alviso slough
by tom • March 17, 2008 • 3 Comments
It would be unfair to call Alviso the armpit of the South Bay because in the real world, people wear deodorant that makes the smell go away, whereas in Alviso, the smell never goes away. On one side there are…
A vacation plan emerges: Carrizo Plain National Monument
by tom • March 16, 2008 • 5 Comments
4WheelBob mentioned this in a comment the other day: he’s joining some of his pals from Backpacker magazine’s forum for a weekend at Carrizo Plan National Monument in Southern California. They’re going this coming Friday to Sunday. I’ve decided to…