Some of you might be saying to yourselves, “Tom, why do you keep going back to the same ol’ places.” Laziness, mostly, but there are times when knowing the terrain like the back of one’s hand (though, come to think…
Trails
Central PA hikes
by tmangan • April 6, 2007 • 0 Comments
I got an e-mail this morning from a guy named Scott Adams who was not the Dilbert creator coming to tell me my blog is so great he’ll pay me a million dollars to shut it down and stop annoying…
Pinnacles revisited
by tmangan • April 1, 2007 • 2 Comments
OK, back to nature. Last weekend I went along with the FOMFOK hiking group on its annual Pinnacles National Monument trek, which is always great fun amid good people (or good fun among great people, depending on how muddy the…
The people you meet on the trail
by tmangan • March 19, 2007 • 0 Comments
Kathleen used to work in the research library at the paper. I used to take a shortcut through her office, right past her desk. Probably passed it a thousand times. Yesterday I was at the Sunol Regional Wilderness, sitting on…
About that “Walk in the Woods” movie
by tmangan • March 8, 2007 • 3 Comments
Somebody at Whiteblaze.net posted a link to a Reno movie writer’s piece about who would be the ideal person to adapt a movie version of Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” into a blockbuster film. Among the suggestions: Steve…
Tramping through Las Trampas
by tmangan • March 4, 2007 • 3 Comments
The daring adventurers of California’s past — who energetically cut down most of the trees, polluted most of the streams and killed off all the grizzly bears — did do something beneficial for ensuing generations: they spent lifetimes buying up…
Florida Trail profile
by tmangan • March 1, 2007 • 0 Comments
I missed this one last week at the American Hiking Society’s Southern Appalachians Initiative blog. It talks about the history of the trail what could be done to finish it so hikers don’t have to trudge down old highways full…
At Santa Clara County’s newest park
by tmangan • February 24, 2007 • 3 Comments
The fact that’s there’s not much to recommend a hike at the new Coyote Lake — Harvey Bear Ranch County Park is, oddly enough, reason to go anyway. Santa Clara County bought the old Harvey Bear Ranch a few years…
Steep Ravine, Matt Davis trails, Mount Tamalpais summit
by tmangan • February 20, 2007 • 4 Comments
Mount Tamalpais is the biggest hill in Marin County, which is just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. I’ve been meaning to check out the trails there pretty much since I first began hiking, but the long drive…