I’m thinking if you live in Orinda you pretty much have to belong to a hiking club (it’s a village in the hills east of Berkeley), to catch up on who’s not talking to whom and such. But anyway: The…
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Redwood Regional Park trail closure next week
by tom • July 9, 2008 • 1 Comment
The park in the Oakland Hills is announcing this trail closure: Redwood Regional Park Trail Segment Temporarily Closed for a Hazardous Tree and Fuel Mitigation Project Beginning Tuesday, July 15, the East Bay Regional Park District will begin a hazardous…
Cool map of East Bay parks and improvement plans
by tom • July 8, 2008 • 10 Comments
This map shows where millions of dollars would be spent if a parks measure passes. Among the highlights: $5 million for Sunol Wilderness. $8.1 million for Coyote Hills Regional Park $8.3 million for Las Trampas Wilderness $4.5 million for Black…
Recent hiking site discoveries
by tom • June 6, 2008 • 2 Comments
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.…
Summer hiking suggestions needed
by tom • May 19, 2008 • 24 Comments
My Wilder Ranch column will appear (if there are no publishing glitches) in the Mercury News on June 5, and the one after that will be June 15 — at which time I’ll be obligated to start writing about places…
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…
East Bay wildflower guide
by tom • April 9, 2008 • 4 Comments
The East Bay Regional Parks District is again showing its Web strategy leaves all the other districts in the dirt: It has PDF guides to the wildflowers sprouting in each of the district’s parks, plus an overall guide of all…
Take the Trail Challenge, get a T-shirt
by tom • April 2, 2008 • 2 Comments
East Bay Regional Parks District got a corporate sponsor (Kaiser Pemanente put their “thrive” money where their mouth was) to pay the freight for free T-shirts and other goodies for those who sign up for the annual Trails Challenge. The…