Might as well let some of y’all help out with an upcoming column. It runs in early September, so cool weather is still a primary concern, which leaves out a lot of the sweltering East Bay parks. Other side of…
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Controlled burn at Russian Ridge
by tmangan • July 31, 2007 • 0 Comments
Some cool pix are here (scroll down to get to them).
Dead cars along the trail
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 6 Comments
I once hiked six miles to see a single riveted shard of old fighter jet fuselage … any bit of wreckage gives me a bit of a thrill (sick, I know). While plane wrecks are rare enough to discourage getting…
Yet another Portola Redwoods State Park hike
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
It can’t be an epic adventure every week (and given my proclivities for safe, easily accessible nearby trails, my adventurers aren’t all that adventurous anyway). This week it was a few hours at Portola Redwoods State Park with Mike Wimble…
Excellent book: Shadow Divers
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 1 Comment
If you’re into true-adventure sea-faring yarns you can’t go wrong with “Shadow Divers,” a story about hard-core divers who found a sunken German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. The book’s a couple years old — somebody at work…
In praise of Bay Nature
by tmangan • July 28, 2007 • 2 Comments
Awhile back I linked to an article in Bay Nature, a quarterly based in Berkeley, and exchanged a few e-mails with its editor, Dan Rademacher, who offered to send me a copy. I figured what the heck and dashed off…
Any interest in a Ho Down II?
by tmangan • July 27, 2007 • 7 Comments
I have vacation the last two weeks of September, which means I’m free for an outing either the weekend of Sept. 22-23, or 29-30. Last year’s outing at Gumboot Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest was great fun attended by…
In Wyoming: Gas drilling tests wildlife populations
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 1 Comment
Drilling for natural gas has tripled in the past few years. Wildlife populations near the wells are taking a hit, according to this story from cnn.com On a June morning, standing in the middle of one of Wyoming’s largest gas…
A Down Under hiking blog
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 2 Comments
This one goes out to Steve Sergeant, who would snow-camp all year if there were clean ski tracks available. An avid outdoorsguy from Australia, where the folks in the far southern climes are chilling out for another winter, left a…