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…
Santa Clara County parks
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…
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…
Long Ridge revisited
by tmangan • May 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
Skyline Boulevard in the Santa Cruz Mountains is the Great White (well, green) Way for South Bay folks who like to get out of the house on a sunny Sunday. Hikers, bikers, Harley riders, runners and crotch-rocketeers all find something…
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…
At Santa Clara County’s newest park
by tmangan • February 24, 2007 • 3 Comments
The fact that’s there’s not much to recommend a hike at the new Coyote Lake — Harvey Bear Ranch County Park is, oddly enough, reason to go anyway. Santa Clara County bought the old Harvey Bear Ranch a few years…
A waterfall hike minus the water
by tmangan • January 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
Sunday was time again for the annual waterfall hike at Uvas Canyon County Park, hosted by Mike & Kathy of FOMFOK fame. Last year, Uvas could’ve given a few of the lesser Yosemite falls a run for their money. We…