Walking the Pacific Crest and Continental Divide Trails and a few others thrown in for good measure, Andrew Skurka is wrapping it up today at the Grand Canyon. His goal: documenting the effects of global warming on the wild places…
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Interactive Kilimanjaro trek
by tmangan • November 2, 2007 • 0 Comments
Everybody else has already linked to this, but hey, bringing up the rear is my standard modus operandi: An interactive graphic of a trek to the top of Kilimanjaro. It does all sorts of jazzy Google Maps stuff and includes…
Gonna be crowded at Mount Diablo this weekend
by tmangan • November 2, 2007 • 1 Comment
It’s the Seventh Annual Trail Adventure weekend: The Contra Costa County high point is the scene of several organized hikes Saturday and the seventh annual Mount Diablo Trail Adventure on Sunday. Included in the Sunday festivities are a marathon, a…
More mountain bike trails on Mount Tam?
by tmangan • November 2, 2007 • 2 Comments
This story in the Marin Independent Journal says the momentum is growing: State officials Thursday convened a discussion with bicycle, hiking and equestrian advocates and others at the Pan Toll parking area on Mt. Tam to discuss opening the 0.6-mile…
Five days of camping and surfing on the Lost Coast
by tmangan • November 2, 2007 • 0 Comments
A writer for Forbes hiked in nine miles with five days’ gear — and a surfboard — to catch some of the finest waves in the West at a place called Big Flat. As the last shards of sunshine danced…
N.Y. Times discovers the Presidio
by tmangan • November 2, 2007 • 0 Comments
It’s where all the military brass wanted to be: Cable cars, Coit Tower, crooked streets
Some dish at the Dish
by tmangan • November 2, 2007 • 0 Comments
SVMoms blog has a post describing one mom’s habit of walking to the Stanford Dish: The first couple of times it was all I could do to struggle up and down the hills while remembering to breathe. Then, as I…
Rick’s desert adventure
by tmangan • November 1, 2007 • 3 Comments
Rick Deutsch, the Hike Halfdome guy, joined some of us for a 14-miler at Mount Diablo on Sunday. He had to get back to town to fly off to Las Vegas, where he met a pal who took him hiking…
Latest Hikes column: Mount Madonna County Park
by tmangan • November 1, 2007 • 0 Comments
Familiar territory for Two-Heel Drive regulars: Mount Madonna County Park has the ruins of a pioneering California land baron, as well as a herd of snow-white European deer that were the gift of a pioneering California press baron. It also…