There’s a rarely traveled corner of Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve where the trail goes deeper and deeper in to the woods, the grass gets taller and taller, and then, ultimately, the trail fades to nothing. I hiked this…
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Sunday at the Marin Headlands
by tom • April 21, 2008 • 6 Comments
I never tire of the Marin Headlands. I drag all my visitors to see them — I even took my Mom up there in the middle of a blinding rainstorm (“there’s a spectacular coastline over there,” I promised, pointing to…
Latest Hikes column: Santa Teresa County Park
by tom • April 17, 2008 • 0 Comments
Santa Teresa, wildflower and mountain biker hub of south San Jose, gets the treatment. The park at San Jose’s southern edge is a magnet for mountain bikers who delight in molar-rattling rides along the rockier trails. Riders were out in…
Monday at Henry Coe: another Mount Sizer epic
by tom • April 15, 2008 • 11 Comments
My pal Vindu Goel is jetting off to Brooklyn this weekend to launch his new life as an tech guru for the New York Times, but he had to get one last Henry Coe hike out of his system. Not…
Sunday at Skyline Ridge, Russian Ridge
by tom • April 15, 2008 • 11 Comments
I’m scouting Skyline Ridge for a future column, and because you really can’t go wrong hiking there. It has ponds, easy trails, varied terrain, and a fair amount of wildflowers. Russian Ridge is far less sexy for the hiker purist…
Feedback on Grant Ranch article
by tom • April 4, 2008 • 0 Comments
This one arrived in today’s e-mail at work in regards to my profile of Joseph D. Grant County Park: Tom – Just a quick note to say that you did a good job on the Grant Ranch piece — I…
More Carrizo Plain pics
by tom • April 4, 2008 • 0 Comments
Carol took some most excellent pictures the weekend before last during our camp-out at Carrizo Plain National Monument. Check ’em out. (They leave mine in the dust).
Latest Hikes column: Joseph D. Grant County Park
by tom • April 3, 2008 • 0 Comments
I focused on the park’s ranching heritage. Often called Grant Ranch in honor of Joseph Grant, who once owned this vast, mountainous tract east of San Jose, the park still has plentiful reminders of its ranching heritage: old windmills, rusty…
Santa Teresa County Park, a first look
by tom • March 31, 2008 • 3 Comments
So I told the gray-bearded mountain biker dude with the bike that probably cost more than my car, “I’d probably be a mountain biker but I have a this strange fear of flat tires.” “Well if that’s the only thing…