My days off are Sunday-Monday these days, which means I get a trails-to-myself day at least once a week if I want it. Today strikes me as perfect one to check out Murietta Falls on the Ohlone Trail: a day…
Ohlone Wilderness
More hills, more trees, more skies
by tmangan • October 16, 2006 • 0 Comments
Last weekend’s festivities in the wilds near Lake Shasta left me a bit glum at the prospect of finding new and interesting stuff to write about back in the in the comparatively mundane hills of the Bay Area. But then…
19 miles and counting
by tmangan • August 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Did those birds really just crash into each other, I wondered? I was hiking along the Ohlone Wilderness Trail, hearing the occasional raptor screeches from high above me, when I saw what appeared to be a midair collision at the…
Back in the wilderness
by tmangan • December 17, 2005 • 1 Comment
If you can find your way through Livermore to the Del Valle Regional Park, you earn the privilege of slogging up and down some of the most ass-busting hills in the Bay Area along the Ohlone Wilderness Trail, which starts…