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…
Castle Rock State Park
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…
Ed Levin County Park
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…
Joseph D. Grant County Park
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…
Mount Olympia
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…
Mission Peak
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 —…
Rancho San Antonio
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…
Mangan's memoirs
Moon over the valley
by tmangan • August 28, 2004 • 4 Comments
Not that this is becoming an obsession or anything, but I’ve been waiting for a full moon to see what kind of shot I could get … little did I realize that the moon takes this position in the western…
Sunol Regional Wilderness
A few hours in the wilderness
by tmangan • August 22, 2004 • 7 Comments
There’s a large lake about a mile from here …. you don’t see anybody swimming or water-skiing in it because it’s there for one reason: to store rainwater that makes it possible for people to live in California for the…