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…
Santa Clara County parks
How about them waterfalls
by tmangan • January 15, 2006 • 2 Comments
It rained all day Saturday but I felt fine, because that meant the waterfalls would be roaring come Sunday, which is just how it turned out. Mike & Kathy’s hiking club does waterfall hikes right after New Years. Last year…
Time for their close-up
by tmangan • January 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
What’ll people do to get on television? We found out a bit on Saturday when K half of the FOMFOK hiking group, and a friend of hers from work, took to the Santa Cruz Mountains to prepare their entry video…
Like I need an excuse to go hiking
by tmangan • December 11, 2005 • 1 Comment
Any walk through the woods beats a day at the office. I know because I worked six days last week — I had lot to compare this week’s hike to. I worked till about midnight Saturday, then woke up at…
They didn’t pave paradise, but they did
put up a parking lot
by tmangan • December 3, 2005 • 1 Comment
You’ll have to take my word for it that this was worth doing: I really and truly attended the grand opening of a parking lot on Saturday. Another 50 or so people were there, which means either we were all…
A-camping we have gone
by tmangan • May 2, 2005 • 1 Comment
The storyline could’ve been "city slickers go camping, hilarity ensues," but there are no disasters to report — primarily because Melissa had our camp-out worked out to the tiniest detail. If an earthquake had ravaged the region, we’d have been…
Good day at Alum Rock
by tmangan • April 18, 2005 • 0 Comments
I’m on vacation for the next two weeks, so the first order of business on Day One had to be a hike. I chose Alum Rock Park, which is run by the city of San Jose. It used to be…
Ridge roving
by tmangan • April 3, 2005 • 0 Comments
The mountain range facing the Pacific Ocean has oodles of open space set aside for hikers, bikers and others who like to gawk at green stuff. I went with Mike, Kathy & company on Saturday to trod some of the…
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…