REI in Fremont is offering a free backpacking course at 7 p.m. June 10. Join REI backpacking specialist Joe Schaffer for a review of the fundamentals of selecting gear for a weekend backpacking trip: layering your clothing for maximum warmth;…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
What is it about redwoods?
by tom • June 2, 2008 • 5 Comments
Walking through a new forest of redwoods always gets me thinking about the old ones. If a Hollywood Indian chief were handy, he’d probably tell me it’s the spirit of their ancestors tweaking my conscience. We call the remaining ones…
Hiking the Phleger Estate
by tom • June 2, 2008 • 3 Comments
Whoever the Phleger’s were, they had fine taste in terrain. The Phleger Estate, now safely in the hands of the National Parks Service, has some of the best trails through redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It’s very remote —…
Off to hike at Phleger Estate
by tom • June 1, 2008 • 0 Comments
The Estate is the the national parks property next to Huddart Park. Here’s a profile of a ranger who used to work there. Sandwiched between Huddart County Park in Woodside and the San Francisco Watershed land to the north, the…