Lots of folks faced nasty weather when a winter storm blew through a couple weeks back, as Leonard recounts in his latest update. He and his crew got a ride north and hiked to the Southern balds while the snow…
Trails
On the way to Kilimanjaro
by tmangan • April 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
Adventure Blog just returned from Africa and has posted a quick review of Day One on the way up Kili: Throughout Day 1 you hike along a well developed and easy to follow trail surrounded by Kili’s cloud forest. The…
Best California hikes, with a twist
by tmangan • April 23, 2007 • 3 Comments
Rick McCharles sent me an e-mail this morning looking for best California hikes, mostly multi-day, but with a major limiting factor: they need to be outside the Sierra. First one that came to mind was the Lost Coast Trail. The…
Orestimba Wilderness opening
by tmangan • April 22, 2007 • 6 Comments
Tom Stienstra of that other newspaper says that a section of Henry Coe State Park called the Orestimba Wilderness will soon be accessible to mere mortals. For decades, getting to the wilderness required hiking, biking horesback-riding at least 20 miles…
Something wild at Calero
by tmangan • April 22, 2007 • 2 Comments
I saw at least a dozen turkeys, a half-dozen red-winged blackbirds, a quarter-dozen deer. I didn’t see the mountain lion, but I may have stepped in its poop. Well, I certainly stepped in something, and it shouldn’t have been doggie-doo…
San Francisco Bay Trail pictures and write-ups
by tmangan • April 19, 2007 • 0 Comments
Whole bunch of them at this site. I live walking distance from the southern reaches of the bay these days and could,if madness struck, hike around the whole bay and back with out ever turning stepping foot into an automobile.…
HIKES: Coyote Hills Regional Park
by tmangan • April 19, 2007 • 0 Comments
(This is my new column in the Mercury News Eye section; I’m archiving it here.) An easy oasis amid civilization’s sprawl Fremont will never be mistaken for an outdoors mecca – you either dodge the throngs at Lake Elizabeth or…
Web site for Free State Hiker
by tmangan • April 12, 2007 • 1 Comment
Ken Berry has the Web site up for this Maryland hiker hostel. Link here. For 30 bucks a night you get: Climate controlled bunk room Linens (sheets, blanket, towel, washcloth, pillow) Hot Shower (soap/shampoo supplied) Laundry (detergent supplied) High Speed…
East Bay Challenge
by tmangan • April 9, 2007 • 1 Comment
Tom Stienstra of that newspaper which we do not name on this blog writes about the East Bay Trails Challenge organized by the East Bay Regional Parks District This is how it works: You register for the Trails Challenge by…