"Less talk, more walk," is the motto of an outfit called Intrepid Northern California Hikers (INCH for short), which stopped by Ed Levin County Park on Saturday. I signed up to go along because the park’s only three miles down…
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A Sunday at Grant County Park
by tmangan • October 11, 2004 • 1 Comment
My reward for spending two chilly days at an outdoor music festival was seven days of sniffles and sneezing. The worst of it was over by Sunday so I went for a little 11-mile solo hike at Joseph D. Grant…
What fun I had in the great outdoors
by tmangan • September 26, 2004 • 4 Comments
Yesterday I drove 55 miles up to Contra Costa County to tag along with this club called the East Bay Casual Hikers. The plan was to scale a minor peak somewhat ambitiously titled Mount Olympia. It topped out at about…
Another day, another climb
by tmangan • September 11, 2004 • 1 Comment
I noticed the other day that it’d been more than a week since my last post … and it just so happened that a hiking club called Walk East Bay had squeezed my favorite local hill — Mission Peak —…
Along the Rancho San Antonio trail
by tmangan • August 28, 2004 • 1 Comment
Awhile back I joined a Yahoo Groups mailing list called Walk South Bay. Today I went on a hike with some Walk SB folks, about 8 miles or so, up and down a ridge at Rancho San Antonio park on…
Moon over the valley
by tmangan • August 28, 2004 • 4 Comments
Not that this is becoming an obsession or anything, but I’ve been waiting for a full moon to see what kind of shot I could get … little did I realize that the moon takes this position in the western…
A few hours in the wilderness
by tmangan • August 22, 2004 • 7 Comments
There’s a large lake about a mile from here …. you don’t see anybody swimming or water-skiing in it because it’s there for one reason: to store rainwater that makes it possible for people to live in California for the…
Two days, two peaks
by tmangan • August 8, 2004 • 3 Comments
More pix from my hiking excursions. Yesterday, I went down the hill to Ed Levin County Park, which has a trail up to Monument Peak — it’s the hill with the big towers that’s in the background of some of…
On a Mission
by tmangan • July 25, 2004 • 4 Comments
The scene: Mission Peak summit. I’m looking due west at a layer of clouds — a flat, fluffy white lawn of condensation — at eye level. The whole valley has been fogged in all morning, and the only way to…