The little blue Bay Area Ridge Trail markers are all over the hills we hike around these parts. Typically they mark high, wind-swept lengths of trail where you rest up and enjoy the view before seeking out shade and shelter…
Media (books, DVDs, etc)
Books by known Two-Heel Drive readers
by tom • May 15, 2009 • 2 Comments
Published authors are known to have haunted these parts over the past few years. These are the ones I know about: SUSAN ALCORN: Camino Chronicle: Walking to Santiago — Susan, known to cavort around the backcountry with Ralph Alcorn, another…
Bay Nature has a Twitter feed
by tom • April 8, 2009 • 0 Comments
Stop in if you’re a member of the twitterverse. For more Bay Nature fun, check out their events calendar. Here’s an interesting one: Movie: The Thin Green Line Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Film screening at…
Anybody read Wend magazine?
by tom • March 28, 2009 • 2 Comments
I stopped by the Web site this morning for a few minutes, noticed a North Bay trail on the blog and somebody’s Redwoods road trip, and wondered if I should spring for the mag. Your thoughts welcome.
Excellent Alpinist profile
by tom • October 17, 2008 • 0 Comments
Turns out it was getting all its go-juice (you know, money) from a monied Linux geek (and we mean that in the “geek is the supreme compliment” vein peculiar to Silicon Valley) who got smacked down hard in the Crash…
Alpinist magazine folds
by tom • October 17, 2008 • 1 Comment
Just found this one. We began Alpinist almost seven years ago in a moment of serendipity. What would it be like, we wondered, to create the magazine of our dreams? Twenty-six issues later (if you count Issue 0, which we…
Video experiment II: BART to the Bridge
by tom • September 1, 2008 • 4 Comments
One thing about San Francisco: there’s always something to see and it’s never standing still. Tailor made for video. An excellent walk, if you’re up for it, is to take BART to the Embarcadero stop, and take the Embarcadero to…
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…
John Muir’s tale of Stickeen, the glacier dog
by tom • July 22, 2008 • 1 Comment
Here’s a wonderful tale written by John Muir, recalling how he spent one terrific/terrible day on an Alaskan glacier. Stickeen was a little ragamuffin of a dog who accompanied Muir on one of his explorations of the Alaskan coast. He…