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Travel
Interesting camper concept
by tom • May 5, 2008 • 5 Comments
Yeah, I should’ve been out hiking yesterday but instead I spent the afternoon gawking at the clever creations at Make Faire, where wacky do-it-yourselfers get their ya-yas out every year at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. While there’s a smattering…
Ansel Adams piece in the New York Times
by tom • April 26, 2008 • 4 Comments
A travel writer mentions what happens when people try to retrace the steps — and recapture the shots — of Ansel Adams. The first step on an Ansel Adams-inspired trip to Yosemite is to visit the gallery run by his…
Santa Clara County car camping recommendations
by tom • March 26, 2008 • 5 Comments
Nice places to car camp near Silicon Valley: Mount Madonna: Most ecologically diverse county park, with miles of great redwood and oak woodland hiking. It’s better to camp here in the spring or fall. The marine layer from the Pacific…
Gear Junkie in Norway
by tom • March 12, 2008 • 0 Comments
This has nothing to do with hiking, or the Bay Area, it’s just a cool thing to do: Touring the crazy-beautiful Norway coastline, which is what lucky sod Stephen Regenold will be up to for the next few days. Specifically,…
Sutter Buttes: a way in
by tom • March 5, 2008 • 7 Comments
We’d been driving all day — up to I80 to Highway 89 and Sierraville near Tahoe, looping over to Quincy on Highway 70 and returning on the same road to Oroville and back down out of the mountains into the…
The other half dome
by tom • February 27, 2008 • 1 Comment
Rick D. says it’s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Sokehs Rock, or Paipalap, juts out and towers over the northern extreme of Sokehs Island. About five hundred feet from base to summit, the massive basalt formation is easily…
Forgive me, I have Farallones lust
by tom • February 12, 2008 • 0 Comments
Doug McConnell’s Open Road site has a bunch of his Bay Area Backroads programs archived. I watched one a minute ago — on a visit to the Farallon Islands — that had me thinking how great it’d be to hike…
Hiking in Ojai
by tom • December 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
That’s “O-hi,” by the way. CNN has one of those “getaways” pieces that mentions this detail: Take a hike: Of the 24 hiking paths that crisscross the valley, the 6 1/2-mile Last Chance Trail, which winds through the forested Santa…