Got back on the trail yesterday at Big Basin Redwoods State Park (real life intervened last weekend so no dirt-trodding got done, alas). One place I hadn’t seen at Big Basin: the Meteor Trail, which is off the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail…
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Hike report: Mt. Roberts Trail, Juneau, Alaska
by tom • September 1, 2008 • 1 Comment
Local hiker Randy L. was in Alaska awhile back, and left an account on the Hike Reports page. A highlight: Once above the tree line, the views are simply breathtaking. Our ship docked very early in the morning and all…
Mission Peak video experiment
by tom • August 25, 2008 • 16 Comments
Yesterday I decided to join the multimedia revolution and take all video clips rather than still images on my weekly outing. I started at Mission Peak because I know the hill by heart and hiking to the top in mid-August…
The latest on Hike Hacker
by tom • August 21, 2008 • 0 Comments
I did a quick guide to shooting a waterfall with a blur effect. In the first week we’ve had over 500 visitors and 1,100 page views, which isn’t half bad for a site that I’ve done next to nothing to…
Fall Creek: A guide to one of the best Bay Area hikes
by tom • August 18, 2008 • 5 Comments
Fall Creek Unit might best be described as the Hiker-Friendly Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, which has a few ancient redwoods in its main section, lot of car campers and a popular swimming hole along the San Lorenzo…
BigFoot evidence to be announced
by tom • August 15, 2008 • 7 Comments
Any minute now in Palo Alto, I’m told. Prior to the press conference, Whitton and Dyer released a few facts about the Bigfoot remains. The animal has reddish-brown hair, gray eyes, is over seven and a half feet tall and…
Hike Hacker is live
by tom • August 14, 2008 • 0 Comments
So I’ve got a basic site started. I know what you’re going to think: I screwed around for a week and ended up with one that looks just like this one? Well, tough noogies. I had to rule out a…
iPhone 3G battery blues
by tom • August 6, 2008 • 5 Comments
I put my iPhone through its paces on the nearby Guadalupe River Trail yesterday, using pretty much every feature built into it. With iTunes running in the background, I walked for about two hours, snapped and uploaded 40 low-resolution pictures…
See it here first: five summer hikes for California travelers
by tom • August 1, 2008 • 4 Comments
Turns out the Mercury News wants at least one more hiking related item: a Sunday travel cover feature recommending five great late-summer hikes within a day’s drive of San Jose. The hikes are Panorama Trail at Yosemite, Lassen Peak summit,…