Poking around at the BAHIKER.com discussion boards the other day yielded a couple interesting links: North Bay Hikes: Rob Laddish built this site for his hiking group. Lots of pictures and hike write-ups from Marin, the coast and points northward.…
Bay Area hiking sites
Essential site: Weekly Walker
by tom • May 2, 2008 • 0 Comments
Get this: Yet another local hiker named Tom who has a hiking site. Weekly Walker is old-school, without many of the doo-dads some of us are prone to play with, but it has in-depth descriptions of hikes across the Bay…
‘Zero Days’ clan on WildeBeat
by tom • April 26, 2008 • 2 Comments
Steve Sergeant interviews Captain Bligh, Nellie Bly and Scrambler, the family who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2004, chronicled in the book “Zero Days” (since trail season is officially under way it’s OK to call ’em by their trail…
Fedak’s Henry Coe pictures posted
by tom • February 19, 2008 • 2 Comments
He camped out at Mississippi Lake, saw much evidence of last year’s fire.
Gambolin’ Man’s best o’ 2007
by tom • January 4, 2008 • 3 Comments
Tom offers a big wet kiss to Bay Area trails. … here I remain, a quarter of a century later, no worse for wear (except for that nagging bum ankle). But I still often ask myself, “What am I doing…
Gambolin’ Man in Moab
by tmangan • October 8, 2007 • 0 Comments
Tom stopped by that place of general, all-around wonderfulness in Utah. Somehow, in the conditioned mind, you’re not supposed to see or associate water with an arid environment. And yet here! –and there! – and everywhere! – it exists, flowing…
Join the WildeBeat, get a book
by tmangan • October 1, 2007 • 1 Comment
Steve notes that if you become a member and donate $48, he’ll send you one of the following: Joy of Backpacking by Brian Beffort Wild Soundscapes by Bernie Krause Afoot & Afield San Francisco Bay Area by David Weintraub The…
Saluting retiring Yosemite ranger
by tmangan • September 27, 2007 • 0 Comments
Steve at the WildeBeat profiles Ranger Laurel Boyers, who is retiring from Yosemite National Park after 31 years at the beginning of October. Boyers’ specialty has been patrolling the backcountry (which constitutes 95 percent of Yosemite). From the script: STEVE:…
Shout-out to Wine Hiker Russ
by tmangan • September 27, 2007 • 4 Comments
He turned 50 today.