Sunday: It’s time to hand the Summit fire coverage over to the professionals. If you want up-to-the-minute updates, check out the live blog at KRON4. If you’ve got time to read a bit, check out the stories at www.mercurynews.com. The…
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Big Santa Cruz Mountains fire near Mount Madonna County Park
by tom • May 22, 2008 • 3 Comments
The latest: MercuryNews.com update reports 20 buildings destroyed but no injuries in the fire burning near Summit Road south of San Jose. I have to go off to my real job pretty soon (this’ll lead Page 1 tomorrow — note…
Huddart County Park: A preview
by tom • May 20, 2008 • 4 Comments
I’ve plucked Huddart Park in San Mateo County from the many fine suggestions that arrived yesterday. What’s next: hiking there this Sunday and perhaps the one after that. Naturally, bahiker.com has Huddart covered. Jane Huber compares it to nearby Wunderlich…
Let me know if your comments don’t show up
by tom • May 19, 2008 • 2 Comments
If you’ve posted a comment and it’s not showing up, there’s a 99.9 percent chance it’s getting held up by my spam filter. If so, drop me an e-mail at twoheedrive@gmail.com I can click a few buttons and make it…
Summer hiking suggestions needed
by tom • May 19, 2008 • 24 Comments
My Wilder Ranch column will appear (if there are no publishing glitches) in the Mercury News on June 5, and the one after that will be June 15 — at which time I’ll be obligated to start writing about places…
Get a free road atlas
by tom • May 17, 2008 • 4 Comments
All you have to do is fill out a survey and pretend you’re a customer of a certain international shipping concern. (link via Steve Rubel).
Which trees do you adore?
by tom • May 16, 2008 • 7 Comments
A post an book about trees at the Scoutmaster blog inspired me to click over to Calflora.org and see how many trees are native to Santa Clara County. The result: 96 trees and shrubs — more than I would’ve guessed,…
Sew your own hiking clothes
by tom • May 16, 2008 • 1 Comment
The truly inspired need no patterns, but sane owners of sewing machines often go to places like butterick.com for guidance (my mom sewed reams of stuff from those patterns). Today Melissa bumped into this page: Butterick Green Pepper, which has…
Crow will Twitter from the PCT
by tom • May 16, 2008 • 0 Comments
Nobody (except her) knows how Crow can afford to live in a cabin with no apparent means of employment for half the year and spend the other half hiking one of the coolest trails on the planet. We’re just thankful…