I spent about 20 minutes yesterday chatting with a East Bay Parks volunteer cop at Mission Peak, one of a few who carry police radios, report crimes to the real cops and try to keep fools from ruining the hillsides…
Trails
One-day Half Dome hike seminar
by tmangan • September 20, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rick Deutsch of Hike Half Dome fame is conducting a course from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 20, on preparing for that one-day hike everybody must either a) do before they die; or b) not do for fear of…
Henry Coe open (sort of)
by tmangan • September 19, 2007 • 1 Comment
The unburnt areas have been open since Saturday, it turns out. This forum page at MTBR.com has a bunch of details from mountain bikers who’ve scouted the place (scroll down to post 246). Lots of familiar places are off limits…
Point Lobos on a weekday in mid-September
by tmangan • September 18, 2007 • 1 Comment
This could well be the best time of the year to drop in on the Point Lobos State Preserve south of Carmel — with lingering summery warmth but just enough of the fog layer remaining to make things interesting. If…
Some pix from Uvas Canyon
by tmangan • September 16, 2007 • 1 Comment
Melissa and I stopped by Uvas Canyon County Park for a few hours on Sunday. I wanted to see if there was any water in the waterfalls. There was, but not much. The pix: A bridge near the beginning of…
Latest hike: Wunderlich County Park
by tmangan • September 10, 2007 • 1 Comment
You won’t get lost at Wunderlich. The signs won’t let you. Perhaps all the San Mateo County Parks Department sites have signs this good — it’ll be worth checking out the rest to see for myself. Every trail junction is…
History of Mission Peak
by tmangan • September 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
I received an e-mail this morning pointing to a history of the people who’ve lived around Mission Peak since the 1850s. At one point there was a game preserve up there, which produced this anecdote: In approximately 1916 a hiker…
Latest Hikes column: Butano State Park
by tmangan • September 7, 2007 • 0 Comments
Actually, it was posted yesterday: Some hiker friends of mine visit Butano State Park mainly as excuse to stop off for pie at Duarte’s in Pescadero, a few miles down the road. Duarte’s bakes luscious pies with berries picked from…
Quick stop at Hidden Villa
by tmangan • September 3, 2007 • 0 Comments
Hidden Villa has eight miles of well-maintained single-track trails snaking through its 1,800 acres, but the farm is really the main attraction. It has pigs, chickens, goats, sheep, cows — just add kids singing “ee-eye-ee-eye-oh” and the picture’s complete. I…