What makes Mount Sizer a must-see? Check out Baychic’s pictures from Saturday. She went with a group that put in a 16-mile version of the Sizer loop (just about any Sizer hike is a minimum of 12 miles, all of…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Excellent Alpinist profile
by tom • October 17, 2008 • 0 Comments
Turns out it was getting all its go-juice (you know, money) from a monied Linux geek (and we mean that in the “geek is the supreme compliment” vein peculiar to Silicon Valley) who got smacked down hard in the Crash…
Take the brat hiking, cure his ADD
by tom • October 17, 2008 • 4 Comments
Well, perhaps. The New York Times Health blog notes a study linking walks outside with improving kids’ ability to pay attention. A small study conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign looked at how the environment influenced a child’s…
Alpinist magazine folds
by tom • October 17, 2008 • 1 Comment
Just found this one. We began Alpinist almost seven years ago in a moment of serendipity. What would it be like, we wondered, to create the magazine of our dreams? Twenty-six issues later (if you count Issue 0, which we…
Trinity Alps profiled in the New York Times
by tom • October 17, 2008 • 3 Comments
John Markoff, the Times’ legendary tech writer, appears to be a hiker at heart. He pens a travel piece on the Trinity Alps, which are northwest of Redding on the way up to Mount Shasta. For most Californians, the notion…
Place to check out: Roy’s Redwoods Open Space Preserve
by tom • October 16, 2008 • 0 Comments
Poking around at Bay Nature’s site, I happened upon a place in Marin County curious for its name and size: Roy’s Redwoods Open Space Preserve. It’s not more than a grove, really, at 377 acres. Check this out from the…
Angel Island fire shots
by tom • October 13, 2008 • 2 Comments
A section of Angel Island caught fire Sunday night. There are tons of great pictures on Flickr. I never watch TV on Sundays; otherwise I would’ve known about it (possibly; my potential for cluelessness is boundless). Cal Fire’s page here.…
Ventana Wilderness fire devastation
by tom • October 13, 2008 • 3 Comments
Here’s a chilling photo album from just one section of the Ventana Wilderness: It’s in the Tassajara area. Fedak tells me the whole area remains closed because of this year’s fires. This page notes that the Basin Fire burned over…
New hike video: Sunol Wilderness
by tom • October 13, 2008 • 8 Comments
About time I got some actual hiking done around here. After a four-week break (the longest in four years) I decided Sunol Regional Wilderness would be an excellent re-entry point. Sunol is my default venue if I’m too lazy to…