Timms Creek Trail connects the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail and the Sunset Trail at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It’s a quiet, secluded, rarely used trail that offers a great escape route if you feel you’re not up for the whole 12…
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Working on a guide to redwoods in the Bay Area
by tom • May 28, 2009 • 6 Comments
Update: It’s started here. I’m putting together a page of links and facts for folks who might be visiting the area and want to a) see some excellent ancient redwoods; and b) avoid the throngs at Muir Woods. Of course…
Props to Andrew P. Hill, the guy who saved Big Basin
by tom • May 23, 2009 • 1 Comment
Thumbing though my copy of the The Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Book this morning, I stopped on a page devoted to Andrew P. Hill, a San Jose painter and photographer responsible for securing protection of the stand of old-growth redwoods…
A great hike at Mount Madonna County Park
by tom • April 14, 2009 • 0 Comments
Mount Madonna Count Park is better known for its campsites and the ruins of a Gold Rush-era land baron’s summer home, but it does have one charming, little-used trail I happened upon primarily because I was too cheap to pay…
Place to check out: Roy’s Redwoods Open Space Preserve
by tom • October 16, 2008 • 0 Comments
Poking around at Bay Nature’s site, I happened upon a place in Marin County curious for its name and size: Roy’s Redwoods Open Space Preserve. It’s not more than a grove, really, at 377 acres. Check this out from the…
Fall Creek: A guide to one of the best Bay Area hikes
by tom • August 18, 2008 • 5 Comments
Fall Creek Unit might best be described as the Hiker-Friendly Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, which has a few ancient redwoods in its main section, lot of car campers and a popular swimming hole along the San Lorenzo…
In today’s Merc: Guy climbs trees while they’re still burning
by tom • June 12, 2008 • 2 Comments
How’s this for a coincidence: We were planning to run a story on rising fire danger anyway, and the Martin fire in Bonny Doon just happens to, well, happen. And we had this great profile Bruce Newmanwrote about Steve Liebenberg,…