I saw the little black angus calf wandering about, baying for its mom, about 100 yards down the trail. I wondered where mom was because the only time a cow will trouble itself to stop grazing is if you block…
Ed Levin County Park
Stone walls at Ed Levin County Park
by tmangan • July 17, 2007 • 11 Comments
Arlene, a local hiker, asked me about the stone walls at Ed Levin County Park. She said she’s been to the park but hasn’t seen the walls. Perhaps she’s among the sane folks who avoid hiking to the heights behind…
Out looking for some wreckage
by tmangan • November 18, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’ve hiked up the Monument Peak Trail at Ed Levin County Park dozens of times but only recently did I learn I had been walking right past remnants of a plane crash on the hill back in the 1950s. I…
See more snow
by tmangan • March 12, 2006 • 2 Comments
It snows hard on the hills around Silicon Valley every second year or so. We got zero snow last year so I figured this weekend’s snowstorm — coming this late in the winter — is about the most we can…
A few scenes from Ed Levin County Park
by tmangan • February 12, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’ve got another snow-camping outing planned for the first weekend in March at Lassen Volcanic National Park. This one includes a seven-mile hike with full pack and snowshoes at above 8,000 feet, which means I need to beef up my…
At the park down the road
by tmangan • March 27, 2005 • 2 Comments
Yesterday it was back to Ed Levin County Park, the one just down the road from our place. The park attracts lots of people trying to catch fish at Sandy Wool Lake or imitate soaring birds with the Wings Of…
A minor milestone
by tmangan • November 21, 2004 • 1 Comment
Back in July, when I was just starting to get serious about hiking, I wrote about hiking two peaks in two days — ambitious stuff for a 42-year-old rookie, really, because both of the trails are long and steep. The…
An INCH in time
by tmangan • November 14, 2004 • 0 Comments
"Less talk, more walk," is the motto of an outfit called Intrepid Northern California Hikers (INCH for short), which stopped by Ed Levin County Park on Saturday. I signed up to go along because the park’s only three miles down…
Two days, two peaks
by tmangan • August 8, 2004 • 3 Comments
More pix from my hiking excursions. Yesterday, I went down the hill to Ed Levin County Park, which has a trail up to Monument Peak — it’s the hill with the big towers that’s in the background of some of…