Saturday dawned gray and bleak, a gloomy reminder of the storm that drenched the Bay Area on Friday (and hailed all over Melissa’s freshly planted garden. She’s still a little miffed). Within a couple hours, though, the skies were back…
Trails
Ridge roving
by tmangan • April 3, 2005 • 0 Comments
The mountain range facing the Pacific Ocean has oodles of open space set aside for hikers, bikers and others who like to gawk at green stuff. I went with Mike, Kathy & company on Saturday to trod some of the…
At the park down the road
by tmangan • March 27, 2005 • 2 Comments
Yesterday it was back to Ed Levin County Park, the one just down the road from our place. The park attracts lots of people trying to catch fish at Sandy Wool Lake or imitate soaring birds with the Wings Of…
At the Pinnacles
by tmangan • March 13, 2005 • 3 Comments
A stand of strange, wonderful rock formations called the Pinnacles National Monument lies about 80 miles south of San Jose. Getting a good look at the place means four hours of driving for five hours of hiking. I went with…
Pausing among petals
by tmangan • March 7, 2005 • 1 Comment
It’s the beginning of wildflower season, which draws hikers to the hillsides to gawk at blooms that sprout by happenstance. I joined Mike, Kathy, Joanne & Peggy on Saturday at Joseph D. Grant County Park — soon to be Wildflower…
Sun and Sunol
by tmangan • February 27, 2005 • 0 Comments
Another Sunol Wilderness hike; I was going to go here last week with Mike & Kathy, but that one got rescheduled to yesterday. Same hike, same club, different day. I can’t get over how great this park is. Small crowds,…
Off to Murietta Falls
by tmangan • February 21, 2005 • 3 Comments
I’m sore, tired and reeking with self-regard, having finished one of the most brutal hikes in the Bay Area today. It’s six and a quarter miles into the heights of the Ohlone Wilderness to a weak excuse for a creek…
A Diablo day
by tmangan • January 30, 2005 • 3 Comments
The highest hill in these parts is Mount Diablo, which rises 3,849 feet above sea level amid the hills, flats and suburbs of Contra Costa County. Dominates the East Bay landscape. It can take all day to hike up there…
Among waterfalls at Uvas Canyon County Park
by tmangan • January 16, 2005 • 3 Comments
Mike and Cathy’s hiking club has a tradition of taking waterfall hikes after New Year’s. I went along on their first of the season Saturday at Uvas Canyon County Park in Morgan Hill, south of San Jose. The park is…