The fact that’s there’s not much to recommend a hike at the new Coyote Lake — Harvey Bear Ranch County Park is, oddly enough, reason to go anyway. Santa Clara County bought the old Harvey Bear Ranch a few years…
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4wheelbob.com is up and running
by tmangan • February 23, 2007 • 1 Comment
Bob Coomber, California Outdoors Hall of Fame Inductee, has his long-awaited Web site up. Bob, as you’ll recall, has a seriously nasty kind of diabetes that makes it impossible to use his legs, so he hikes with his hands, arms…
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 23, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Mr. Symmetry,” from the photo stream of paulnq. Caption: “Mule deer buck, unhurried and unworried.” (Paul is a 1997 Appalachian Trail thru-hiker.)
Why he’s hiking the PCT
by tmangan • February 23, 2007 • 0 Comments
Paul Caccamo, from a Trail Journals prep entry: For quite some time I’ve been feeling the desire to check out of our mechanized and digitalized existence. I’ve become extremely sensetive to machine sounds over the past few years. If I’m…
Feral Hiker’s blog
by tmangan • February 22, 2007 • 1 Comment
I’ve been meaning to post a link to feralhiker.blogspot.com, which belongs to a Washington state hiker and camper, but keep getting distracted. This description of a rodent encounter got my attention: Late one fall I setup camp about noon near…
Back from Tasmania
by tmangan • February 22, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rick at Besthikes.com posted a bunch of cool pix from his Tasmanian adventure last week, and this week he came as close as humanly possible to saying “Tom, when the hell are you going to send some linkage my way?…
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 22, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Silhouette of Annie,” from the photo stream of Dru!. Caption: “Fortuitous lighting on Elk Mountain near Chilliwack. I seem to be lucking out with the good light lately! This is currently the shot that I would most like to revisit,…
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 21, 2007 • 1 Comment
“Untitled,” from the photo stream of tenncyclist. The caption: “Rock and Ice formations on the trail in Frozen Head State Park.” The state park is in Tennessee’s Cumberland Mountains.
Give us water
by tmangan • February 21, 2007 • 0 Comments
It’s supposed to be waterfall season in the Bay Area, when constant rains produce gullly-washers that send the water roaring down the canyons. Hasn’t really worked out that way this year because we’ve gotten about half as much rain as…