Posted today. The intro: December is a gift to hikers drawn to Mount Diablo, the peak dominating the East Bay landscape. It’s a month when occasional rains wash smog from the sky and open amazing vistas (you’ll see snowcapped Sierra…
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More great Mount Diablo trails
by tom • December 4, 2007 • 0 Comments
Seth Adams of Savemountdiablo.org, which just issued a massive new hiking map of the area around Mount Diablo State Park, passed along some of his favorite Diablo hikes. … you’ve done some nice hikes, the loop around the summit is…
Rock City at Mount Diablo State Park
by tom • November 26, 2007 • 7 Comments
You don’t hear much clamor among hikers to check out the Rock City area at Mount Diablo State Park. The rocks are very cool, but they’re also covered in the initials, names and graduation years of lord knows how many…
Stop the presses, I’m actually going hiking
by tom • November 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
I’m heading up to Mount Diablo to check out the Rock City area today (duty calls; this’ll be for another column in the Mercury News). It’s my last major section of the park still unexplored. Tons more minor ones, plus…
Gonna be crowded at Mount Diablo this weekend
by tmangan • November 2, 2007 • 1 Comment
It’s the Seventh Annual Trail Adventure weekend: The Contra Costa County high point is the scene of several organized hikes Saturday and the seventh annual Mount Diablo Trail Adventure on Sunday. Included in the Sunday festivities are a marathon, a…
Diablo Three Peaks, again
by tmangan • October 29, 2007 • 2 Comments
Vindu wondered why on earth I’d want to do this hike again. Fourteen miles later, I was wondering too. It is a hike that must be done once. Mount Diablo dominates the East Bay landscape, visible from pretty much every…
Three peaks at Mount Diablo
by tmangan • January 21, 2007 • 4 Comments
I get some of my best ideas in the shower. Sunday morning I was somewhere between the wash and rinse cycles when I realized I had to go to Mount Diablo, hike up to a knob at about 3,000 feet…
The long view
by tmangan • January 7, 2007 • 1 Comment
“Is that the Sierra over there?” I asked. “Has to be,” Vindu replied. We were on that great rarity at Mount Diablo State Park – a relatively flat stretch of trail — and had just finished a mildly excruciating climb…
A quest for snow
by tmangan • February 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
The snow we got over the weekend was heaviest above 3,000 feet. Since I’m all about the snow outings these days I decided the place to go to see more snow was Mount Diablo, which summits at over 3800 feet.…