First thing I did on New Year’s morning was look outside to see how bad the weather was. It’s been crappy for a solid week, and I was feeling so cooped-up that I’d have gone out in a monsoon, just…
Trails
Mud, fog, hills: A day in the Sunol Wilderness
by tmangan • December 13, 2004 • 0 Comments
OK, I admit the side trip through the creek was a bad idea. I was just about done with a 12-mile trek through previously unhiked (by me) sections of Sunol Wilderness Regional Park. The day had two distinguishing features: fog…
A minor milestone
by tmangan • November 21, 2004 • 1 Comment
Back in July, when I was just starting to get serious about hiking, I wrote about hiking two peaks in two days — ambitious stuff for a 42-year-old rookie, really, because both of the trails are long and steep. The…
A Castle keeper
by tmangan • November 14, 2004 • 2 Comments
Sunday took me to Castle Rock State Park with a hiking club started by a guy named Mike and his wife, Kathy. The club’s called FOMFOK for Friends of Mike, Friends of Kathy. It’s mostly them and their pals but…
An INCH in time
by tmangan • November 14, 2004 • 0 Comments
"Less talk, more walk," is the motto of an outfit called Intrepid Northern California Hikers (INCH for short), which stopped by Ed Levin County Park on Saturday. I signed up to go along because the park’s only three miles down…
A Sunday at Grant County Park
by tmangan • October 11, 2004 • 1 Comment
My reward for spending two chilly days at an outdoor music festival was seven days of sniffles and sneezing. The worst of it was over by Sunday so I went for a little 11-mile solo hike at Joseph D. Grant…
What fun I had in the great outdoors
by tmangan • September 26, 2004 • 4 Comments
Yesterday I drove 55 miles up to Contra Costa County to tag along with this club called the East Bay Casual Hikers. The plan was to scale a minor peak somewhat ambitiously titled Mount Olympia. It topped out at about…
Another day, another climb
by tmangan • September 11, 2004 • 1 Comment
I noticed the other day that it’d been more than a week since my last post … and it just so happened that a hiking club called Walk East Bay had squeezed my favorite local hill — Mission Peak —…
Along the Rancho San Antonio trail
by tmangan • August 28, 2004 • 1 Comment
Awhile back I joined a Yahoo Groups mailing list called Walk South Bay. Today I went on a hike with some Walk SB folks, about 8 miles or so, up and down a ridge at Rancho San Antonio park on…