A Contra Costa Times writer reports back from the 4-Mile Trail to Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park. Hikers are attracted to Glacier Point because there are so many ways to access it. You can take a shuttle bus to…
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Quiet canyon
by tmangan • June 22, 2006 • 1 Comment
An Arizona Republic writer muses on what happens when the Grand Canyon goes completely silent. n the morning, the wind still blew, and the day unfolded with sound. The camp stove, the water boiling, footsteps on the slickrock, a rattlesnake…
Great Eastern Trail profile
by tmangan • June 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
Louisville Courier Journal profiles a new trail that could provide an alternative to the Appalachian Trail: Planners hope that eventually it could serve as a foundation of a 10,000-mile network of paths running from south Florida to Maine, from Virginia…
Localhikes.com profile
by tmangan • June 16, 2006 • 0 Comments
The local paper in Simi Valley, CA, profiles Jim Zuber, the guy who started localhikes.com. The website currently has more than 2,000 nationwide hikes listed, of which 300 are in Southern California. “You can spend 10 years hiking in Southern…
Washington Trails Association’s excellent Web site
by tmangan • June 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Andrew Engelson, editor of Washington Trails magazine, sent me a kind e-mail yesterday and pointed me to the blog of the Washington Trails Association. It’s just one fine element of a truly great Web site kept by the trails association.…
Sunol in the sunshine
by tmangan • June 4, 2006 • 1 Comment
I knew I wanted to hike somewhere on Sunday; I just didn’t want to hike too hard, or think too hard, or drive too far. When the lazy gene kicks in, I start thinking about places where the pictures take…
Another trip to the big trees
by tmangan • May 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Six miles into Portola Redwoods State Park is the Valley That Loggers Forgot. The park is in a section of the Santa Cruz Mountains where enterprising, forward-looking entrepreneurs clear-cut acre after acre to answer the Bay Area’s growing demand to…
A picture perfect day
by tmangan • May 28, 2006 • 0 Comments
There seems to be a fundamental force of nature which requires that on the day you forget to take your camera along, the skies will be an impossible canvas of California blue, the clouds decorating these skies will billow in…
Another Utah trek
by tmangan • May 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
UT Outdoors blog profiles the not-so-miserable Misery Canyon: The approach canyon started the day off right. Tall cliffs through a deep open canyon covered with all types of vegetation. The contrast of green tress and bushes in front of soaring…