Joost Schreve, CEO of EveryTrail.com, hired me to write more than two-dozen “Guides,” for his site, which allows the GPS-enabled to record their adventures with words, pictures and GPS waypoints. Now Joost and his team are building a second tier…
Tom's travels
Bay Area hiking guide assembled
by tom • October 8, 2009 • 0 Comments
As I promised a few weeks back, I’ve created a few pages that sum up the Bay Area hiking experience as I saw it from 2004 to 2009. It starts here. Won’t be anything new to the regulars; it’s mostly…
Hiking
First impressions on hiking in North Carolina
by tom • October 8, 2009 • 6 Comments
I’ve figured out a few things hiking in the hills near Winston Salem that I may have alluded to on my hike write-ups; today I felt like assembling them in one place for safekeeping. Humidity is wind chill in reverse.…
Hanging Rock State Park
Sauratown Loop Trail: Not bad for a wrong turn
by tom • October 4, 2009 • 2 Comments
I had some exploring at Hanging Rock State Park in mind — the goal was to park at a remote trailhead and trek over to the Moore’s Wall Loop, which has an excellent view of Hanging Rock from the next…
Media (books, DVDs, etc)
Catching up with “The National Parks”
by tom • September 30, 2009 • 3 Comments
PBS is airing all the episodes of Ken Burns’ opus online for the next few days. Watching the first two makes me wonder how John Muir did not simply go insane. Remember, he lived in the Bay Area. And those…
Media (books, DVDs, etc)
Reviews wanted for “The National Parks”
by tom • September 29, 2009 • 8 Comments
We’re trying an experiment at our house in which we have no television (we can watch Netflix movies on demand, but that’s it). This means no chance for me to share my incisive insights (which is more difficult than you…
Stone Mountain State Park
First hike: Stone Mountain State Park
by tom • September 29, 2009 • 7 Comments
Got this one right the first time (for once): There’s a parking lot at either end of the 4.5-mile Stone Mountain Loop. I started at the Upper Lot Trailhead and did what’s become instinctive: followed the arrows to the waterfalls.…
Stone Mountain State Park
Setting my sights on Stone Mountain
by tom • September 27, 2009 • 7 Comments
Still waiting for the weather to clear so I can head up to Stone Mountain State Park, which is at the foot of the closest thing North Carolina has to a front range of the Great Smokies. Stone Mountain is…
Mangan's memoirs
Doing some site reorg
by tom • September 26, 2009 • 0 Comments
I’m going to organize all of my Bay Area-related content into its own section of this site, for the benefit of googlers who might stumble upon all my old posts (let’s pretend it’s for their benefit, OK?). This’ll keep me…