Thumbing though my copy of the The Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Book this morning, I stopped on a page devoted to Andrew P. Hill, a San Jose painter and photographer responsible for securing protection of the stand of old-growth redwoods…
Overnighters I’ve done
Photo essays from one-night backpacking trips taken by Tom Mangan of Two-Heel Drive
Henry Coe backpacking: You know you want to
by tom • April 15, 2009 • 4 Comments
Henry Coe State Park is the only park in the Bay Area that allows camp-where-you-wanna backpacking. All the rest require reservations, and good luck getting a Saturday night at Big Basin or Sunol Wilderness if you haven’t paid for your…
Henry Coe backpacking — yet another blog post
by tom • May 30, 2008 • 1 Comment
On a lark I created a Google alert for “Henry Coe” the other day, and it’s unearthed another gem: this one from a guy who calls his blog “Wondering Vet” (Vietnam, not veterinary school). He just got home from a…
Blogger’s first overnighter at Henry Coe
by tom • May 29, 2008 • 0 Comments
Happened upon this blog post by a trail runner who hiked in and camped out at Henry Coe State Park. China Hole Trail dropped down to (crazily enough), China Hole, the swimming hole on Coyote Creek. Dodging the ubiquitous poison…
Berry Creek Falls today
by tom • March 3, 2008 • 6 Comments
I’m doing the big loop at Big Basin to check out the water flow … pix & chatter tonight.
Henry Coe backcountry reopens Saturday
by tom • February 15, 2008 • 4 Comments
Coepark.org reports that all fire-damaged areas have been declared open again. Hat tip to Fedak for passing the news along; he’s packing his gear for a couple days of backpacking.
Two days on the Ohlone Wilderness Trail
by tmangan • April 16, 2007 • 9 Comments
Some part of me wanted to hike all 28 miles of the Ohlone Wilderness Trail in the worst way, which I can safely say includes: Hiking in rain and pea-soup fog for the five miles of the trail I’d never…
Another two days in the wilderness
by tmangan • July 17, 2006 • 6 Comments
It’s about 2 in the morning and I’m staring into the black nylon of my sleeping bag. I should be staring out the little hole that makes this a "mummy-style" bag, but my twisting and turning has entered the Olympic…
Camping by lakes and trees
by tmangan • June 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
So it was back to the Carr Lake Trailhead at Tahoe National Forest this weekend for a fun three miles to Penner Lake. Scenery was fabulous, especially for whetting one’s appetite for the jaw-dropping vistas of the High Sierra. We…