I have a hundred-dollar windbreaker imported from England, where they need such attire to fend off those North Sea gales. I had this jacket on Saturday when I stepped out of the Hiker Hauler at the base of Mission Peak,…
Mission Peak
A minor milestone
by tmangan • November 21, 2004 • 1 Comment
Back in July, when I was just starting to get serious about hiking, I wrote about hiking two peaks in two days — ambitious stuff for a 42-year-old rookie, really, because both of the trails are long and steep. The…
Another day, another climb
by tmangan • September 11, 2004 • 1 Comment
I noticed the other day that it’d been more than a week since my last post … and it just so happened that a hiking club called Walk East Bay had squeezed my favorite local hill — Mission Peak —…
Two days, two peaks
by tmangan • August 8, 2004 • 3 Comments
More pix from my hiking excursions. Yesterday, I went down the hill to Ed Levin County Park, which has a trail up to Monument Peak — it’s the hill with the big towers that’s in the background of some of…
On a Mission
by tmangan • July 25, 2004 • 4 Comments
The scene: Mission Peak summit. I’m looking due west at a layer of clouds — a flat, fluffy white lawn of condensation — at eye level. The whole valley has been fogged in all morning, and the only way to…