The format of the column essentially forbids giving proper credit to the greatness that is Henry Coe, so this piece is not among my favorites, but I’m hoping it’ll get a few first-timers out to the park who might’ve had…
Trails
Secluded coastal hikes
by tmangan • October 10, 2007 • 0 Comments
A site called Coastal Living has a list of intriguing coastal strolls around the nation. They plucked this one from the zillions of California choices: California: Redwood National Park South of the Oregon border, hikers will discover a flamboyantly scenic…
Latest hike: Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
by tmangan • October 8, 2007 • 3 Comments
On a clear day you can see Sunnyvale. The operative question being: why would you want to? Sunday was one of the clearest, see-all-the-way-to-San Francisco days in recent memory (which, in my case, goes back to about last Thursday, though,…
Latest Hikes column: Wunderlich County Park
by tmangan • October 4, 2007 • 0 Comments
Read it & weep in today’s Mercury News: It’s a passable getaway on weekends, but the parking lot fills up quickly, a consequence of its shady, sanely graded trails and easy proximity to Interstate 280, Woodside and Portola Valley. Wunderlich…
It’s Bumpass Hell out there
by tmangan • October 4, 2007 • 1 Comment
An L.A. Times article raves over the odorous wonders of Bumpass Hell in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Here’s how the story goes: In 1865, a pioneer named Kendall Vanhook Bumpass, who had discovered the site the year before, guided a…
Priceless grammatical error of the day
by tmangan • October 2, 2007 • 1 Comment
From a teen’s account of visiting Yellowstone: Our next stop was what we had come here to see: the infamous Old Faithful geyser. Scheduled to erupt every 92 minutes, we waited impatiently. I know if I were scheduled to erupt…
Searching for fire damage at Henry Coe
by tmangan • September 30, 2007 • 1 Comment
Two long hikes in the past week at Henry Coe have shown me that it takes some serious hoofing to see any of the remnants of the Lick fire, which burned across almost half the park’s acreage. Whether you come…
More Henry Coe pix
by tmangan • September 26, 2007 • 4 Comments
Remember how I said I was on vacation this week? Well, I did have an itch to see if any fire damage was evident at Henry Coe State Park. Bottom line: yeah, if you walk a long, long way. Melissa…
Latest Hikes column: Hidden Villa
by tmangan • September 22, 2007 • 1 Comment
Forgot to post this the other day. Hidden Villa near Los Altos Hills was the latest victim: You may forget you came here to hike. On the way to the trails at Hidden Villa, you’re apt to pass pigs, cows,…