The Greenbelt Alliance is a lobbying group for wild lands around the Bay Area. One of the reasons we have so many hiking options is that outfits like this one are working behind the scenes to make it happen. The…
Bay Area hiking sites
Essential site: VirtualParks.org
by tmangan • July 18, 2007 • 0 Comments
OK, everybody, do as you’re told and head over to VirtualParks — a collection of more than 1,000 “VR” panoramas of hiking trails and other sites in California and the West. Getting the VR to work is a bit tricky…
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,…
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…
Fedak’s favorite hiking links
by tmangan • July 6, 2007 • 2 Comments
Fedak sent me a bunch o’ hiking-related links for my “essentials” series the other day. All commentary is his: These are more peak bagging sites, but since most peaks have an approach hike these often double as hiking guides. Snow…
A nod to Gambolin’ Man
by tmangan • July 4, 2007 • 0 Comments
I managed to omit Gambolin’ Man’s blog from the collection of essential sites I posted the other day. Its owner, who also has the good sense to be named Tom, is a honcho of sorts at the University of California…
Steepest Bay Area trails
by tmangan • July 3, 2007 • 11 Comments
One of my favorite threads at the BAHiker.com bulletin board asks folks to share the steepest local hikes. There’s wide consensus that a section of old gravel road at Henry Coe State Park known as the Hobbs Road Short Cut…
Essential site: Dan’s Outside
by tmangan • July 1, 2007 • 0 Comments
Dan Mitchell loves to hike and camp, but his passion for photography is the highlight of his site. He has a knack for bringing back interesting imagery from a couple parks near San Jose — Almaden Quicksilver and Calero —…
Essential site: The WildeBeat
by tmangan • July 1, 2007 • 0 Comments
Steve Sergeant’s podcast on getting into the wilderness is pretty much the standard against which outdoor podcasts should be measured. He leads hikes year-round with the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club. Knows his way around a camp stove,…