Coyote Hills Regional Park is along the San Francisco Bay’s Fremont shoreline. The hills are more like humps and half the trails are paved. A nice place for an easy stroll, and an excellent place to snap off a few…
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Sizing up Mount Sizer
by tmangan • February 17, 2007 • 1 Comment
The idea of having 80-some thousand acres all to yourself is hard to get your head around — it’s not like you can act on such knowledge. Heck, it’d take 20 years to explore it all on foot, and while…
New Big Sur hiking site
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
This just in: www.hikinginbigsur.com. Big Sur is the remote stretch of California coastline south of Carmel, where Clint Eastwood used to be mayor. It has some of the most spectacular coastal scenery on this continent, and I’m just talking about…
Trails double at park near Coyote Lake
by tmangan • February 9, 2007 • 0 Comments
This is for all you Bay Area types hot to check out the latest trails: In one of the largest trail-building projects ever in the Santa Clara County parks system, crews have begun construction that will double the miles of…
On the Florida Trail of Woe
by tmangan • January 31, 2007 • 0 Comments
Awhile back I posted a link to Highway2Health Walk, a planned thru-hike of the Florida Trail from Orlando to Key West. The other day I revisited the Trail Journal of the hike’s organizer, one Steve Silberberg, the brains behind a…
A waterfall hike minus the water
by tmangan • January 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
Sunday was time again for the annual waterfall hike at Uvas Canyon County Park, hosted by Mike & Kathy of FOMFOK fame. Last year, Uvas could’ve given a few of the lesser Yosemite falls a run for their money. We…
Saturday at Mission Peak
by tmangan • January 28, 2007 • 2 Comments
This’ll be a quickie: I did the Horse Heaven Trail to the Mission Peak summit on Saturday and snapped a few interesting frames. It seemed like most of January had passed without a cloud in the sky, so it was…
Three peaks at Mount Diablo
by tmangan • January 21, 2007 • 4 Comments
I get some of my best ideas in the shower. Sunday morning I was somewhere between the wash and rinse cycles when I realized I had to go to Mount Diablo, hike up to a knob at about 3,000 feet…
Fall Creek Unit: Cold like January creek water
by tmangan • January 14, 2007 • 2 Comments
It’s the kind of idea that sounds so absurd that it must be tried out. The past few days have been among the coldest on record in the Bay Area. Even though these temperatures dipping into the high 20s sound…