Before I get to this week’s hike, I have to revisit last week, when the instructor of my lightweight backpacking class mentioned having gone on a hike that required something like 50 stream crossings. Somebody asked if he changed out…
Trails
Sorry, Dude
by tmangan • April 14, 2006 • 0 Comments
If any of you are like me and enjoy The Dude Abides, the lapsed lawyer now fulltime snowboarder keepin’ it real in Bozeman, Montana, you may share my chagrin at Outside magazine having named Bozeman one of its Top Ten…
AT dispatch of the day
by tmangan • April 12, 2006 • 0 Comments
Overflow, at 363.8 miles in: I was only planning on walking 18 miles today, but Chestnut convinced me to do 21 so that I would have my first day over 20. He said that it gets easier after you’ve done…
Coast Trail, Palomarin Trail Head, Point Reyes National Seashore
by tmangan • March 27, 2006 • 3 Comments
My feet are sore, my thighs are stiff, so I must’ve done something right yesterday. I drove 90 miles to the southern end of Point Reyes National Seashore to hike 5.5 miles up the Coast Trail to a place called…
Return to the Pinnacles
by tmangan • March 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
Seems like it’s rained every day for the last three weeks. I was so fed up with hiking in the mud that I skipped my morning hikes all week, so I was ready for some trail time this weekend. Mike…
See more snow
by tmangan • March 12, 2006 • 2 Comments
It snows hard on the hills around Silicon Valley every second year or so. We got zero snow last year so I figured this weekend’s snowstorm — coming this late in the winter — is about the most we can…
Creeks, falls and redwoods
by tmangan • March 5, 2006 • 1 Comment
Sorry, no snow this week after all. I bailed on snow-camping at Lassen Volcanic National Park because the weather was too, well, snowy. I ended up goofing off most of the weekend, but did manage to get one hike in…
Sunol, it’s good to know you
by tmangan • February 26, 2006 • 1 Comment
Another Sunday, another ramble with Mike and Kathy’s hiking club at Sunol Regional Wilderness. You can’t go wrong at Sunol, though we have tried, time and again. Mention Sunol to anybody who hikes in the Bay Area and wait for…
A quest for snow
by tmangan • February 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
The snow we got over the weekend was heaviest above 3,000 feet. Since I’m all about the snow outings these days I decided the place to go to see more snow was Mount Diablo, which summits at over 3800 feet.…