Mount Diablo State Park seems aptly named if you visit in summer, when dry, sunny afternoons in the high 90s are a fixture of the environment. It’s another world, however, in winter and spring, when the hills green up and…
Trails
A few scenes from Ed Levin County Park
by tmangan • February 12, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’ve got another snow-camping outing planned for the first weekend in March at Lassen Volcanic National Park. This one includes a seven-mile hike with full pack and snowshoes at above 8,000 feet, which means I need to beef up my…
Falling out all over
by tmangan • January 22, 2006 • 2 Comments
So I’m on my way to Murietta Falls, trudging up a section of the Ohlone Wilderness Trail popularly known as The Big Burn; possibly so titled because of a fiery regeneration of the plant life years ago, but certainly because…
How about them waterfalls
by tmangan • January 15, 2006 • 2 Comments
It rained all day Saturday but I felt fine, because that meant the waterfalls would be roaring come Sunday, which is just how it turned out. Mike & Kathy’s hiking club does waterfall hikes right after New Years. Last year…
Time for their close-up
by tmangan • January 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
What’ll people do to get on television? We found out a bit on Saturday when K half of the FOMFOK hiking group, and a friend of hers from work, took to the Santa Cruz Mountains to prepare their entry video…
Back in the wilderness
by tmangan • December 17, 2005 • 1 Comment
If you can find your way through Livermore to the Del Valle Regional Park, you earn the privilege of slogging up and down some of the most ass-busting hills in the Bay Area along the Ohlone Wilderness Trail, which starts…
Like I need an excuse to go hiking
by tmangan • December 11, 2005 • 1 Comment
Any walk through the woods beats a day at the office. I know because I worked six days last week — I had lot to compare this week’s hike to. I worked till about midnight Saturday, then woke up at…
A chilly day at Mount Diablo
by tmangan • December 4, 2005 • 0 Comments
We got a bunch of rain last week; typically that’ll knock a lot of the crud out of the air and create amazing vistas from the hills around the Bay Area. Sunday morning we could see San Francisco from the…
They didn’t pave paradise, but they did
put up a parking lot
by tmangan • December 3, 2005 • 1 Comment
You’ll have to take my word for it that this was worth doing: I really and truly attended the grand opening of a parking lot on Saturday. Another 50 or so people were there, which means either we were all…