A few more details on the New Year’s Day hike: Start time is 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. Rain does not cancel (at least not for me). It’s at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains.…
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by tmangan • December 4, 2006 • 0 Comments
Saturday: Mission Peak Sunday: Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve
Do something crazy next time
by tmangan • November 23, 2006 • 0 Comments
I thought Dan Mitchell was nuts when he suggested hiking to the top of Mission Peak in the dark to catch the sunrise from the summit. I knew this meant a 5:30 lift-off, which meant waking an hour earlier to…
Mission Peak at Sunrise
by tmangan • November 23, 2006 • 1 Comment
Dan taking shots, originally uploaded by Tom Clifton. I spent the predawn hours hiking to the top of Mission Peak with Dan Mitchell, in the photo above; Tom Clifton, who took this picture; John Fedak, who joined me at Mount…
Turkey Day dawns at Mission Peak
by tmangan • November 23, 2006 • 10 Comments
So much for the full moon. Actually there was no moon at all when I got to the Mission Peak trailhead and saw a couple parked cars and shadows of headlamp-wearing humans milling about. John Fedak is the first face…
Final T-Day at Dawn reminder
by tmangan • November 22, 2006 • 0 Comments
We embark at 5:30 a.m. from the Mission Peak Stanford Avenue Trailhead. More details here. Here’s one more Mission Peak page. PDF of the trail map here.
Update on the Turkey Day hike
by tmangan • November 20, 2006 • 2 Comments
With apologies to our beyond-the Bay-Area brethren, here’s the latest on our daring attempt to summit Mission Peak at sunrise on Thanksgiving morning. Current weather forecast calls for sunny skies and an overnight low in the mid-40s. We’ll be donning…
UPDATE: Turkey Day Mini-Meetup at Mission Peak
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 11 Comments
CHANGE O’ PLANS: Dan Mitchell wants to do this at dawn to catch the sunrise from the top of the peak. This would require a 5:30 a.m. launch from the trailhead to get up to the top at 6:55. There…
Quick comment on Tuesday’s election
by tmangan • November 10, 2006 • 0 Comments
Americans cannot stand a unified government, and there’s at least a scrap of evidence that unified government doesn’t like America. To wit: 1960s: Democrats run everything. Result: Calamity in Vietnam. 2000s: Republicans run everything: Result: Calamity in Iraq. The saying…