I’ve been on group hikes where folks carry along little two-way radios, which are a notch above those walkie-talkies we played with as kids. The range isn’t great, especially when there are hills and trees in the way, but as…
Bay Area hiking clubs
Link payback: Orinda Hiking Club
by tom • July 30, 2008 • 0 Comments
I’m thinking if you live in Orinda you pretty much have to belong to a hiking club (it’s a village in the hills east of Berkeley), to catch up on who’s not talking to whom and such. But anyway: The…
Blogs
Birthday shout-out to Marion in Tahoe
by tom • July 30, 2008 • 0 Comments
Marion Vermazen, last seen on the Tahoe Rim Trail, adds another anniversary of her terrestrial arrival. Marion’s a hiker/blogger/Silicon Valley high-tech retiree who has been known to haunt these parts of the hiking blogosphere. (Hat tip to Facebook’s birthday feature.)
Hiking
New Facebook page
by tom • July 29, 2008 • 4 Comments
Two-Heel Drive now has a Facebook page for all you Web 2.0 types. It’s actually a handy thing to have around: it lets fans post pictures, and allows events to be posted and discussions to be created. Now all we…
Blogs
Lots o’ Bay Area hiking and blogging happening
by tom • July 29, 2008 • 5 Comments
One of my favorite rationalizations for maintaining Two-Heel Drive on wages a Kalahari Bushman would reject out of hand is that it encourages other hikers to get out there and come home and post accounts of their travels. I admit…
Hiking
Victoria on Tomales Point
by tom • July 29, 2008 • 0 Comments
The webmistress of the Flirty ‘n’ Dirty blog generally runs trails vs. walking them, but she’s had a raft of nice trail descriptions of late. She was at one of my faves, Tomales Point at Point Reyes National Seashore, the…
Blogs
Wow, get thee to Forest of Nisene Marks
by tom • July 28, 2008 • 0 Comments
The Cactus Eater offers this irresistible enticement. Sometimes you forget you’re near Santa Cruz until you see or hear the signs: fat-tire unicyclists on an illegal trail ride deep in the park’s interior, someone lost in the sounds of his…
Backpacking
Backpacking at Big Pine
by tom • July 28, 2008 • 1 Comment
Carol came back with some great pictures. She was one of the folks who camped out with 4WheelBob and a bunch of us at Carrizo Plain last spring. Sad to say I didn’t get any hikes in this weekend ……
Backpacking
Feel like writing up your latest backpacking trip?
by tom • July 25, 2008 • 0 Comments
Sectionhiker says: post it at his place. Here is a list of sample topics that you could write about: A product review – something you’ve used in the field. This includes international equipment brands not distributed in the US. A…