Every year lots of cool, shiny, new outdoor gear is introduced: clothes, tents, packs, lights, stoves, you name it. It is hard to keep in mind that this year’s newest wonder gear will soon be next year’s old stuff… and resist the “need” to upgrade right away. I try. Sometimes I succeed.
However, a beneficial [...]
Power Poles. Mission Peak. February 25, 2006. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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Today’s hike took me up Mission Peak… again. I’ve been to the top of this peak above Fremont, California four times recently. Today I started a bit earler - I was on the trail just after 7:00 a.m. - so I had a chance to extend the hike a bit.
I climbed the main trail to [...]
Hikers. Upper Mission Peak. February 19, 2006. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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From Sierra Club Compass:
Mixed Signals. The day after President Bush delivered a State of the Union address in which he owned up to America’s “addiction to oil” and called for more research on alternative fuels and energy sources, the federal lab charged with heading up such research announced that a $28 million budget cut had [...]
Diablo Range Snow and Clearing Clouds. Almaden Quicksilver. February 18, 2006. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
Today I started out thinking I was going to hike to the top of Mission Peak and photograph new snow. However, as I drove that direction it became apparent that there would be no snow to photograph by the time I [...]
Fire Road. Calero Park. February 17, 2006. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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Oak, Grass, and Sky. Calero Park. February 17, 2006. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
I got out for a morning hike at Calero Park today, mostly before the rain arrived.
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A whole string of interesting outdoor articles arrived in my SFGate RSS feed today, so I’ll point to some of them here:
Paul McHugh offers the story of multiple PCT hiker Scott Williamson and offers a list of outdoor events.
Tom Stienstra explains why now may be a great time to visit Yosemite Valley, offers a guide [...]
Mission Peak: A Second Try
On Saturday I wrote that I headed toward the Mission Peak trail in the morning, only to decide to head down to Almaden Quicksilver instead when it appeared that I would not find snow on Mission Peak.
I went back to Mission Peak yesterday and did climb the peak - but via the main trail since [...]