Summary of the price tag for Sunday’s jaunt to Angel Island State Park: Parking in Tiburon: $11 Ferry to the island: $13 Golden Gate Bridge toll: $5 Five gallons of gas for 120-mile round trip: $16.25 (Note to self: find…
Day hikes I’ve done
Mount Madonna County Park profiled
by tmangan • July 11, 2007 • 0 Comments
Bay Nature magazine has an excellent in-depth look at Mount Madonna County Park, which gets lots of campers but not nearly so many hikers. The park is at the peak of the southern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains and…
Watching some waterfowl at Don Edwards National Wildlife Sanctuary
by tmangan • July 10, 2007 • 2 Comments
When the folks at work said I’d get to keep my job, there was a catch: Sundays and Mondays off rather than Saturdays and Sundays. There was one upside: a three-day weekend when the new schedule kicked in, which gave…
Latest hike: Portola Redwoods State Park
by tmangan • July 8, 2007 • 2 Comments
Next scouting mission for my Mercury News “Hikes” column: Portola Redwoods State Park. Portola’s another of those “second-growth” redwood forests that sprang up after the previous redwood forest got clear-cut. The park map shows the Old Tree Trail about a…
Latest Hikes column posted
by tmangan • July 5, 2007 • 2 Comments
It’s a pretty quick take on a very big park. The intro: There’s a tree-hugger born every minute at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. The seductive charms of the park’s towering ancient redwoods become evident the minute you step on…
Sanborn Skyline Part II
by tmangan • July 1, 2007 • 2 Comments
So I’m stopping for lunch near a trailhead at Sanborn Skyline County Park that happens to be across the road from Castle Rock State Park. The Sanborn Skyline parking lot is full, but none of those carloads of hikers are…
Latest hike: Sanborn Skyline County Park
by tmangan • June 25, 2007 • 4 Comments
Just a shady walk through the hills of a county park I hadn’t been to before. Sanborn Skyline is off Highway 9 west of Saratoga — nestled, as we love to say in the news biz — in the woods…
Purisima Creek column posted
by tmangan • June 21, 2007 • 0 Comments
My latest column at the paper is here.
Big Basin from the back side
by tmangan • June 17, 2007 • 4 Comments
I wondered why that farm worker was giving me that strange look. Maybe it was because he has a backbreaking job providing all the exercise he requires and he can’t imagine why people would walk for recreation when General Motors…