Somebody at a hunting club nearby was burning something in a barrel and it got out of hand. Authorities announced Wednesday that the Lick fire was started by careless behavior at a private hunting camp near a spot called Booze…
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Facts on the Santa Cruz Mountains
by tmangan • September 5, 2007 • 2 Comments
From ABC of Hiking: The area now occupied by the San Cruz Mountains was, in pre-hisortic time, the entrance to a vast inland sea that encompassed central California’s San Joaquin Valley. These mountains lie on a large section of land…
Wagbags on Whitney
by tmangan • September 5, 2007 • 4 Comments
For those who missed it yesterday, the New York Times has the, uh, poop on the absence of the privy atop the highest peak in the lower 48.
Nasty fire near Henry Coe State Park
by tmangan • September 4, 2007 • 6 Comments
“Fire at Henry Coe State Park in California,” from the photo stream of d^b. A Flickr user flying into San Jose last night snapped this pic of the big fire burning near Henry Coe State Park. Word this morning is…
Best Hikes blogger in town
by tmangan • September 3, 2007 • 5 Comments
Rick McCharles is back in town today — on my couch, to be specific about it — though he’s catching an afternoon flight to the Pacific Northwest for another in his never-ending string of adventures. Rick was an essential hand…
Quick stop at Hidden Villa
by tmangan • September 3, 2007 • 0 Comments
Hidden Villa has eight miles of well-maintained single-track trails snaking through its 1,800 acres, but the farm is really the main attraction. It has pigs, chickens, goats, sheep, cows — just add kids singing “ee-eye-ee-eye-oh” and the picture’s complete. I…
Mercury News profiles 4WheelBob
by tmangan • August 31, 2007 • 3 Comments
Mike Cassidy talked to Bob this week and the honchos liked the story so much they put it on the front page. “It took a bit of doing,” he told me the other day. A bit. Like three days, a…
Tom Clifton’s vacation pictures
by tmangan • August 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
He had some fun at a place in Oregon called Humbug Mountain. More of his pics at his Flickr page.
Mountain bikers injured at Forest of Nisene Marks
by tmangan • August 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
From the Santa Cruz Sentinel: An evening bike ride in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park turned perilous for a local couple Monday when the woman rode off an 80-foot cliff and her husband plummeted nearly as far trying…