You don’t get a lot of this on trails near town: the feather touch of a spider’s silk on your calves that tells you you’re the first to pass this way today. I got some of that yesterday on the…
Calero County Park
Latest Hikes column: Calero County Park
by tom • January 18, 2008 • 0 Comments
This was posted yesterday but I got busy: It’s all horses and flowers at Calero County Park. Calero, near the southern edge of San Jose, is one of Santa Clara County’s most popular equestrian destinations – it even has corrals…
Calero revisited
by tmangan • April 29, 2007 • 0 Comments
“It was a great six-mile hike. Unfortunately, we had to hike 10.” M. Wimble, FOMFOK That’s one of Mike’s favorite descriptions of outings in which the accumulation of miles manages to drain most of the fun out of a walk…
Something wild at Calero
by tmangan • April 22, 2007 • 2 Comments
I saw at least a dozen turkeys, a half-dozen red-winged blackbirds, a quarter-dozen deer. I didn’t see the mountain lion, but I may have stepped in its poop. Well, I certainly stepped in something, and it shouldn’t have been doggie-doo…