Or, better yet, what are you voting against? I’m a cautious, fiscally conservative, middle-class white guy who thinks the United States of America is the greatest large country on this planet of ours, but I almost never vote for Republicans.…
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Nice local blog: Bay Area Outdoors and Beyond
by tom • November 4, 2008 • 4 Comments
Dave Miller has been sending GPS/Google maps of his Northern California hikes to Backpacker magazine for some time, but his blog has been around only since July ’08. The most recent post is a gem: he goes to Cloud’s Rest…
Links for Bay Area hiking voters
by tom • November 4, 2008 • 10 Comments
Bay Nature has a quick list of the major outdoors-related votes on today’s ballot. The Greenbelt Alliance thoughtfully instructs us on how to vote. The biggest vote is for Measure WW, which will allow the East Bay Regional Park District…
Evil advertisers alert
by tom • November 3, 2008 • 5 Comments
Well, Google’s Adsense has finally pissed me off. The twits who think the world will end when people of the same gender marry have bought up blog space across the California blogosphere and their aggravating, misleading ads are showing up…
First hike: Garin-Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park
by tom • November 2, 2008 • 6 Comments
Garin-Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park is mostly former ranch land, like most of the East Bay parks, which means a fair share of old Jeep trails better attuned to the internal combustion engine. The park is in lies in the…