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…
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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.
Hiking group or flash mob?
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
Do flash mobs even exist anymore? Anyway… I thought it’d be interesting to post a link to one of the local hikes listed on meetup.com. A group based in Mountain View called “Let’s hike and maybe take a break if…
Essential site: Greenbelt Alliance
by tmangan • July 23, 2007 • 3 Comments
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…
More ways to meet hikers: meetup.com, tribe.net
by tmangan • July 19, 2007 • 0 Comments
Today’s sites worth seeing: Tribe.net and meetup.com. I posted a note flogging our new Bay Area focus at Tribe.net’s Bay Area Hiking tribe and got a reply from a guy offering to lead anthropological hikes around the area. Of course…
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…
Club: Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Association
by tmangan • July 17, 2007 • 0 Comments
The SCMTA maintains trails at Big Basin and Castle Rock state parks, plus the Skyline-to-the-Sea trail. They also have hikes most Sundays — scroll down to the bottom of the page to find links to photos from their hikes; somebody…
Best of the best in Bay Area trails
by tmangan • July 16, 2007 • 7 Comments
These are my favorite hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve done them all a few times. Berry Creek Falls Loop, Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Twelve miles though one of the most amazing stands of ancient redwoods on…