The latest: MercuryNews.com update reports 20 buildings destroyed but no injuries in the fire burning near Summit Road south of San Jose. I have to go off to my real job pretty soon (this’ll lead Page 1 tomorrow — note…
Hiking, Huddart County Park
Huddart County Park: A preview
by tom • May 20, 2008 • 4 Comments
I’ve plucked Huddart Park in San Mateo County from the many fine suggestions that arrived yesterday. What’s next: hiking there this Sunday and perhaps the one after that. Naturally, bahiker.com has Huddart covered. Jane Huber compares it to nearby Wunderlich…
Hiking
Let me know if your comments don’t show up
by tom • May 19, 2008 • 2 Comments
If you’ve posted a comment and it’s not showing up, there’s a 99.9 percent chance it’s getting held up by my spam filter. If so, drop me an e-mail at twoheedrive@gmail.com I can click a few buttons and make it…
Best Bay Area Hikes, Hiking
Summer hiking suggestions needed
by tom • May 19, 2008 • 24 Comments
My Wilder Ranch column will appear (if there are no publishing glitches) in the Mercury News on June 5, and the one after that will be June 15 — at which time I’ll be obligated to start writing about places…
Travel
Get a free road atlas
by tom • May 17, 2008 • 4 Comments
All you have to do is fill out a survey and pretend you’re a customer of a certain international shipping concern. (link via Steve Rubel).
Wildlife
Which trees do you adore?
by tom • May 16, 2008 • 7 Comments
A post an book about trees at the Scoutmaster blog inspired me to click over to Calflora.org and see how many trees are native to Santa Clara County. The result: 96 trees and shrubs — more than I would’ve guessed,…
Gear
Sew your own hiking clothes
by tom • May 16, 2008 • 1 Comment
The truly inspired need no patterns, but sane owners of sewing machines often go to places like butterick.com for guidance (my mom sewed reams of stuff from those patterns). Today Melissa bumped into this page: Butterick Green Pepper, which has…
Blogs
Crow will Twitter from the PCT
by tom • May 16, 2008 • 0 Comments
Nobody (except her) knows how Crow can afford to live in a cabin with no apparent means of employment for half the year and spend the other half hiking one of the coolest trails on the planet. We’re just thankful…
Hiking, Photography
See, Twitter is not a portal to an Internet black hole
by tom • May 15, 2008 • 5 Comments
Just this morning, David of Random Curiosity posted this tweet: Getting my fill of Everest climbing by watching this: http://snurl.com/28x7z while reading this: http://snurl.com/28×89 And thus saved me the trouble of looking up something cool to post on the ol’…