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,…
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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,…
Essential site: California Wine Hikes
by tmangan • July 1, 2007 • 0 Comments
Russ Beebe is a longtime leader of local hikes and a lover of fine wines who has, as far as I can tell, personally introduced the concept of combining hiking and wine tasting to the United States (he says it’s…
Essential site: Fedak.net
by tmangan • July 1, 2007 • 0 Comments
John likes to hike long and hard in the local hills and takes in some Sierra peak-bagging when the mood strikes. He a couple hundred photo albums and going on 10,000 photos from his hikes. Every time I think I’ve…