It’s the beginning of wildflower season, which draws hikers to the hillsides to gawk at blooms that sprout by happenstance. I joined Mike, Kathy, Joanne & Peggy on Saturday at Joseph D. Grant County Park — soon to be Wildflower…
Santa Clara County parks
Among waterfalls at Uvas Canyon County Park
by tmangan • January 16, 2005 • 3 Comments
Mike and Cathy’s hiking club has a tradition of taking waterfall hikes after New Year’s. I went along on their first of the season Saturday at Uvas Canyon County Park in Morgan Hill, south of San Jose. The park is…
New year, new hike.
by tmangan • January 1, 2005 • 0 Comments
First thing I did on New Year’s morning was look outside to see how bad the weather was. It’s been crappy for a solid week, and I was feeling so cooped-up that I’d have gone out in a monsoon, just…
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…
A Sunday at Grant County Park
by tmangan • October 11, 2004 • 1 Comment
My reward for spending two chilly days at an outdoor music festival was seven days of sniffles and sneezing. The worst of it was over by Sunday so I went for a little 11-mile solo hike at Joseph D. Grant…
Along the Rancho San Antonio trail
by tmangan • August 28, 2004 • 1 Comment
Awhile back I joined a Yahoo Groups mailing list called Walk South Bay. Today I went on a hike with some Walk SB folks, about 8 miles or so, up and down a ridge at Rancho San Antonio park on…
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…