Check it out at www.mercurynews.com You don’t hike at Los Trancos Open Space Preserve hoping for an earth-shaking experience — not with the San Andreas Fault beneath your feet. The fault that flattened San Francisco in 1906 cuts through the…
Yosemite National Park
Half Dome hiker on OpenRoad.TV
by tom • March 20, 2008 • 0 Comments
Rick Deutsch has a five-minute video with Doug McConnell of Bay Area Backroads fame. It’s all familiar ground to many of us in the Global Hiker Elite (particularly those who’ve had the good fortune to drive 60 miles to a…
In the news
Local hiker moving up in the world
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 4 Comments
I just found out a guy I’ve hiked with several times — Vindu Goel, who also is a tech columnist for the Mercury News — has just been hired away by the New York Times. That’s him at Mount Diablo…
Photography
Excellent Henry Coe Picture
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 1 Comment
Jason Armstrong shot the Henry Coe headquarters before dawn with a 30-second time exposure that creates an orange glow in the background. Check it out, it’s way cool.
Media (books, DVDs, etc)
‘Zero Days’ author events
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 0 Comments
If you’ve done your civic duty and purchased Barb Egbert’s book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with her husband and 10-year-old daughter, now’s your chance to see the clan in person at a series of free events at South…
Photography
Stone kinky
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 1 Comment
Supertopo, the climbers’ board, has a thread showing rock formations that look like naughty bits. Silly but amusing. Wonder if this one from the Pinnacles qualifies: Link via GoBlog (of course).
Wildlife
More Bay Area wildflower links
by tom • March 19, 2008 • 1 Comment
Sunset magazine’s Fresh Dirt blog has a bunch of pretty pictures and tips for finding flowery goodness. The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District holds multiple guided walks each weekend at their dozens of protected swaths of open space on the…
Henry Coe State Park, Wildlife
Wildflowers and more from Henry Coe State Park
by tom • March 18, 2008 • 5 Comments
It’s not exactly a riot of color out there just yet, but there’s plenty for alert eyes to see. Oddly enough I’m still not seeing many California poppies in parks this season, but keep seeing tons growing along roads —…
Hiking
Useful site: survivaltopics.com
by tom • March 18, 2008 • 0 Comments
This site has a wealth of handy info. What it’s about: Survival Topics strives to be a hands-on survival skills website. Rather than just write up the same old stuff you find copied from books and other websites, we actually…