The SCMTA maintains trails at Big Basin and Castle Rock state parks, plus the Skyline-to-the-Sea trail. They also have hikes most Sundays — scroll down to the bottom of the page to find links to photos from their hikes; somebody…
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Best of the best in Bay Area trails
by tmangan • July 16, 2007 • 7 Comments
These are my favorite hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve done them all a few times. Berry Creek Falls Loop, Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Twelve miles though one of the most amazing stands of ancient redwoods on…
Latest hike: Angel Island State Park
by tmangan • July 15, 2007 • 2 Comments
Summary of the price tag for Sunday’s jaunt to Angel Island State Park: Parking in Tiburon: $11 Ferry to the island: $13 Golden Gate Bridge toll: $5 Five gallons of gas for 120-mile round trip: $16.25 (Note to self: find…
Hyponatremia: Losing your water balance
by tmangan • July 13, 2007 • 11 Comments
Cynthia Leeder sent me this link yesterday: A description of “hyponatremia,” which happens when the body has too much water and not enough salt. An excerpt: Ultra endurance events including marathons, triathlons and even the popular “eco-challenges” are seeing an…
Essential site: Trail Center
by tmangan • July 12, 2007 • 0 Comments
Trailcenter.org is the place to go to sign up for trail maintenance outings, but there’s tons more at this site, including: Outdoor recreation guide Trail Companion newsletter List of Bay Area outdoor-related links. Next time you get in good-deed-doing mode,…
Mount Madonna County Park profiled
by tmangan • July 11, 2007 • 0 Comments
Bay Nature magazine has an excellent in-depth look at Mount Madonna County Park, which gets lots of campers but not nearly so many hikers. The park is at the peak of the southern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains and…
Watching some waterfowl at Don Edwards National Wildlife Sanctuary
by tmangan • July 10, 2007 • 2 Comments
When the folks at work said I’d get to keep my job, there was a catch: Sundays and Mondays off rather than Saturdays and Sundays. There was one upside: a three-day weekend when the new schedule kicked in, which gave…
Nod to Cynthia Leeder’s hiking page
by tmangan • July 10, 2007 • 5 Comments
Cynthia, a frequent commenter here, has more than two dozen hikes chronicled at her site. Her hikes always include Topo maps with elevation profiles — something I’d probably do if I ever got around to buying a GPS. Last week…
Travels with 4WheelBob
by tmangan • July 9, 2007 • 5 Comments
“This looks pretty steep through here, ” I say. “You sure you want to try it?” “You can’t let six feet of trail defeat you,” Bob says. What happens next is an unforgettable hiking-with-Bob moment. Bob has gotten his chair…