Note to hikers, bloggers, readers, etc: It’s been six years since the last post at Two-Heel Drive, so it’s safe to say things are on hold around here permanently. I updated this blog regularly for more than six years, and…
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Another Sunday at Sunol
by tmangan • October 23, 2005 • 0 Comments
Last year I had hiked in the rain a half-dozen times by this late in October, but it’s nothing but sunshine around here this fall. The last time I hiked through the Sunol Wilderness, my camera died on me, so…
Just another sunset
by tmangan • October 23, 2005 • 0 Comments
Took this last night with my new digicam.
Me vs. the volcano
by tmangan • September 3, 2005 • 0 Comments
Rule No. 1 for hiking up hills might well be: If you can hear your heartbeat, it’s time to slow down. When I do training hikes, huffing it up steep trails, I know I’m not really pushing myself until my…
Too hot, too hilly: A day at Henry Coe
by tmangan • August 29, 2005 • 0 Comments
If you read up on Henry Coe State Park, the first things you’ll learn are a) the hills are hell; and b) hiking there in late summer is madness. I was one of a few brave fools to hit the…
Getting sweaty at Sunol
by tmangan • August 22, 2005 • 7 Comments
A year ago last weekend I visited the Sunol Wilderness Regional Park for the first time. Since then I’ve been back to the park at least a half-dozen times. Sunol has just about everything you’d want in a park —…
Hot day at Angel Island
by tmangan • July 26, 2005 • 0 Comments
Operative adjective of the past few days has been "scalding." Well, scalding by our standards. It’s not like the brutal 95/95 (degrees/humidity) that we’ve known in Tampa or the insufferable 103/92 we’ve known in Peoria, but even when there are…
Back to Big Basin
by tmangan • July 18, 2005 • 2 Comments
So I’m sitting on the end of fallen redwood six miles into the semi-wilds of Big Basin State Park (it’s far too popular with humans to be truly wild). I’m in a lush valley near a creek that burbles, roars…
Big Sur, for sure
by tmangan • July 10, 2005 • 0 Comments
“No camper has ever been turned away from Andrew Molera State Park,” Teresa told us. Teresa’s the co-founder of the East Bay Backpacking Club. She planned an easy weekend trip at the park, which is perched on the Big Sur…