This’ll be a quickie: I did the Horse Heaven Trail to the Mission Peak summit on Saturday and snapped a few interesting frames. It seemed like most of January had passed without a cloud in the sky, so it was…
Day hikes I’ve done
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…
Fall Creek Unit: Cold like January creek water
by tmangan • January 14, 2007 • 2 Comments
It’s the kind of idea that sounds so absurd that it must be tried out. The past few days have been among the coldest on record in the Bay Area. Even though these temperatures dipping into the high 20s sound…
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…
First hike of 2007
by tmangan • January 1, 2007 • 2 Comments
Silicon Valley humor that nobody else would find humorous: We’ve hiked six miles at Montebello Open Space Preserve and we’re resting up at a trail stop close to the parking lot. A philosophical discussion of Karma arises (nothing but the…
Beyond the Grizzly Flat trailhead
by tmangan • December 24, 2006 • 1 Comment
Skyline Boulevard, otherwise known as California Route 35, runs along the spine of the Santa Cruz Mountains and is among the prettiest drives in the Bay Area. One of the nice things about Skyline is that if you take a…
Mission Peak again? Yeah
by tmangan • December 9, 2006 • 1 Comment
I’d do all my hikes at Mission Peak if the weather’d cooperate like it did on Saturday. Cloudy skies, light rain, prodigious mud and gale-force winds might not sound like cooperative conditions, but when you’ve done this hike several dozen…
10 miles at Purisima Creek Redwoods OSP
by tmangan • December 4, 2006 • 1 Comment
On Sunday, I hiked with a bunch of folks from Bay Area Linkup who gathered at Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. The trailhead is on Highway 35, otherwise known as Skyline Drive, a few miles north of Woodside. The…
Mission Peak in high winds
by tmangan • December 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
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,…