I’m not going anywhere special, it’s just a week away from the never-ending newspaper slalom. This tends to cause erratic posting, but if I do anything postworthy, well, I’ll probably post it.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Backpacks for overnighters: what do you like?
by tom • March 14, 2008 • 8 Comments
I’m fond of my Gregory G Pack — for the fit more than anything else. It’s reasonably light at just under 3 pounds, reasonably affordable, reasonably well built, and reasonably spacious. It has mesh around the exterior that holds oddly-shaped…
Expanded Black Diamond Mines tours
by tom • March 14, 2008 • 0 Comments
East Bay Regional Parks is having an open house April 5-6 for the silica/sand mine tours at Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, where you’ll be able to go 810 feet into the mine rather than a mere 400, which was…
Tunnel View Trees Gone At Long Last!
by tom • March 14, 2008 • 5 Comments
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seethed in impotent rage at having to put up with large Ponderosa pines blocking my inalienable right to soak up all there is to see at Yosemite’s Tunnel View. Finally, this crime…
Wanted: Hiker vigilantes
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 8 Comments
Rick at Hike Half Dome mentions getting a sticker on his window from the Fremont cops in the Mission Peak parking lot reminding him not to leave his windows open. He’d left a one-inch gap to let the heat escape.…
Bolinas Lagoon wildlife preserve reopening
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 0 Comments
Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Bolinas Lagoon Preserve, three miles north of Stinson Beach, reopens this weekend and stays open till July 13. The pitch: it’s when 100 nesting pairs of egrets and herons return to a grove of redwoods near the…
A bunch more “Scared Indoors” links
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 0 Comments
Steve amassed a list of links to discussions about his “Scared Indoors” series of podcasts. Check it out.
Wildflower intelligence, surveillance needed
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 9 Comments
I’m seeing hints of wildflower season — lots o’ poppies on steep, sunny hillsides, mainly — but I can’t be everywhere so I figured I may as well ask what the rest of you are seeing out there. So, let’s…
Gear Junkie in Norway
by tom • March 12, 2008 • 0 Comments
This has nothing to do with hiking, or the Bay Area, it’s just a cool thing to do: Touring the crazy-beautiful Norway coastline, which is what lucky sod Stephen Regenold will be up to for the next few days. Specifically,…