Rick Deutsch, author of a book called “Hike Half Dome,” also has a blog that’s regularly updated. Rick’s also appearing at 7 tonight at Sunrise Mountain Sports in Livermore to chat up his book. The store is at 2455 Railroad…
Tom's travels
Wanted: Suggestions for a future Hikes column
by tmangan • August 1, 2007 • 9 Comments
Might as well let some of y’all help out with an upcoming column. It runs in early September, so cool weather is still a primary concern, which leaves out a lot of the sweltering East Bay parks. Other side of…
Wildlife
Controlled burn at Russian Ridge
by tmangan • July 31, 2007 • 0 Comments
Some cool pix are here (scroll down to get to them).
Hiking
Dead cars along the trail
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 6 Comments
I once hiked six miles to see a single riveted shard of old fighter jet fuselage … any bit of wreckage gives me a bit of a thrill (sick, I know). While plane wrecks are rare enough to discourage getting…
Portola Redwoods State Park
Yet another Portola Redwoods State Park hike
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
It can’t be an epic adventure every week (and given my proclivities for safe, easily accessible nearby trails, my adventurers aren’t all that adventurous anyway). This week it was a few hours at Portola Redwoods State Park with Mike Wimble…
Media (books, DVDs, etc)
Excellent book: Shadow Divers
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 1 Comment
If you’re into true-adventure sea-faring yarns you can’t go wrong with “Shadow Divers,” a story about hard-core divers who found a sunken German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. The book’s a couple years old — somebody at work…
Media (books, DVDs, etc)
In praise of Bay Nature
by tmangan • July 28, 2007 • 2 Comments
Awhile back I linked to an article in Bay Nature, a quarterly based in Berkeley, and exchanged a few e-mails with its editor, Dan Rademacher, who offered to send me a copy. I figured what the heck and dashed off…
Outdoor Blogger Ho Down
Any interest in a Ho Down II?
by tmangan • July 27, 2007 • 7 Comments
I have vacation the last two weeks of September, which means I’m free for an outing either the weekend of Sept. 22-23, or 29-30. Last year’s outing at Gumboot Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest was great fun attended by…
Wildlife
In Wyoming: Gas drilling tests wildlife populations
by tmangan • July 25, 2007 • 1 Comment
Drilling for natural gas has tripled in the past few years. Wildlife populations near the wells are taking a hit, according to this story from cnn.com On a June morning, standing in the middle of one of Wyoming’s largest gas…