A heart-tugging tale in this morning’s Mercury News recounts how an Australian named Grant Tischler hiked to the place where a plane crash killed his father 55 years ago Wednesday. Wednesday morning, Tischler arrived early at the trail head for…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
How to start a hiking blog
by tom • October 28, 2008 • 21 Comments
So you were inspired by The Case for Starting Your Own Hiking Blog and now you want a blog of your very own. Here’s how to get the blog rolling: 1. Get a topic You could just name it “John…
The case for starting your own hiking blog
by tom • October 28, 2008
Why start a hiking blog? Three years ago, when Two-Heel Drive was born, the question had had scarcely been asked, much less answered — perhaps because up until then, hikers did not blog and bloggers did not hike. Related: How…
First look: Garin Regional Park
by tom • October 24, 2008 • 4 Comments
Garin and the neighboring Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park are in the hills east of Hayward/Union City in Alameda County. Autumn is the next-best time to hike the East Bay hills (spring with the green/flowers being the best), and Garin/DryCreek…
We’re No. 24 on somebody’s list of top 100 men’s health blogs
by tom • October 23, 2008 • 1 Comment
I just love that this was posted at a site called Massage Therapy Careers. A list-happy writer named Christina Laun compiled an impressive sub-category of another place we showed up in 2007: Top 100 Health and Wellness Blogs. From the…
Yosemite’s Tunnel View: new and improved
by tom • October 23, 2008 • 0 Comments
It’s hard to imagine improving on the vista at Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park, but that won’t stop people from trying. They already cut down some ponderosa pines that had the temerity to block people’s sight lines; now they’ve…
Nature column debuts in Mercury News
by tom • October 23, 2008 • 2 Comments
Lisa Krieger, one of our best writers, has begun penning a monthly column about nature and outdoor doings (topic for future discussion: Why is there never any interest in the nature indoors? Must be because it’s all bugs and bacteria).…
Interesting site: campingblogger.net
by tom • October 21, 2008 • 2 Comments
A Silicon Valley techie/family guy named Roy Scribner been blogging about camping for the past couple years. He’s mainly the tow-behind-the-SUV-camper type because he got a lifetime’s worth of sleeping on the ground during the army paratrooper phase of his…
Map of East Bay indigenous people’s sites
by tom • October 20, 2008 • 0 Comments
The East Bay Hill People site (last seen here in May 2008) now has a map of sites throughout the East Bay that can be explored in greater detail on Google Earth. Here’s a zoomed-down look at the map; the…