My latest column at the paper is here.
Trails
Trail Angel proposal
by tmangan • June 18, 2007 • 4 Comments
I’d like to get a Trail Angel outing together for folks thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Most of the crowd is in the High Sierra north of Kennedy Meadows and should start trickling into Yosemite around the Fourth of July.…
Big Basin from the back side
by tmangan • June 17, 2007 • 4 Comments
I wondered why that farm worker was giving me that strange look. Maybe it was because he has a backbreaking job providing all the exercise he requires and he can’t imagine why people would walk for recreation when General Motors…
Sandals had to be rescued
by tmangan • June 11, 2007 • 0 Comments
So imagine yourself in the Mojave Desert and you catch some bug that causes rampant dehydration. This seems to be what happened to Cari Tucker, AKA Sandals, according to the guy who found her on the trail and did what…
Big Basin minus the waterfalls
by tmangan • June 10, 2007 • 4 Comments
This week’s hike is more prep work for an upcoming column in the local paper. Sorry if it sounds like a broken record, but if I blog about stuff for which there is an actual paycheck I can delude myself…
Latest Hikes column: Castle Rock State Park
by tmangan • June 8, 2007 • 0 Comments
This one travels to Castle Rock State Park. (All my columns are archived here at the Merc site if you’d like to bookmark the page.) Hikes: Castle Rock State Park’s sandstone holds visitors in thrall Castle Rock State Park is…
Deep in the woods at Purisima
by tmangan • June 3, 2007 • 9 Comments
Summertime’s upon us in Silicon Valley and I’ve finally gotten it into my head that it’s not necessary to spend every weekend sweating through dusty trails on hills that have gone from green to brown. Along the Santa Cruz Mountains…
Reminder: National Trails Day is tomorrow
by tmangan • June 1, 2007 • 0 Comments
Even though I’ve been blogging about overall greatness of hiking for over a year and a half and haven’t heard a peep of gratitude from the American Hiking Society, I’m still going to recommend getting involved in whatever National Trails…
Parks reservation system crash
by tmangan • May 25, 2007 • 0 Comments
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, National Parks Traveler reported yesterday: The folks at Great Smoky Mountains National Park report that the national reservation system for the park systems’ campgrounds crashed earlier today. As a result, all of Great…