Two Riders, Calero Hills
Two Riders. Calero Hills, California. June 2, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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June 2007
Three Trees and Trail, Calero Hills
Three Trees and Trail. Calero Hills, California. June 2, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. [G Dan Mitchell Photography]
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Purisima Creek Redwoods Park and More…
At Two-Heel Drive today, an extensive post about hiking at Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. And the best part? The prettiest photo of an outhouse I’ve ever seen. Really. Follow the link to the article to see what I mean.
Deep in the woods at Purisima. Summertime’s upon us in Silicon Valley and I’ve finally [...]
A Couple Noteworthy Two-Heel Drive Posts
Tom of Two-Heel Drive shared a couple of posts that caught my eye yesterday. First, he reports that…
The Walkies. Elizabeth King, keeper of the Walktopia blog, dropped me an e-mail this morning reporting she had named Two-Heel Drive the Best Hiking Blog…
Congratulations, Tom!
Then, he tips his dusty and a bit sweaty hiking hat to one [...]
In John Muir’s Footsteps
SFGate:
A Santa Cruz couple are hoping to restore some popularity to one of the classic early views of Yosemite, reopening a 19th century door on what Muir came to regard as a holy vista — the “sanctum sanctorum of the Sierra.”
Donna and Peter Thomas, a husband-and-wife team of artists who spend most of their time [...]
Putting their lives on the line to keep others safe in Yosemite
Putting their lives on the line to keep others safe in Yosemite
A story in SFGate about Yosemite Search and Rescue:
Once little more than a rag-tag group of climbers who volunteered to help rangers in emergencies, a separate search and rescue program was established by the park service in Yosemite in 1974. It is now a [...]
Three Trees, Calero Hills
Three Trees. Calero Hills, California. June 2, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
A photograph from my National Trails Day hike.
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Greenland Ice Melt Speeds Up
SFGate:
Greenland Ice Melt Speeds Up - NASA scientists reading signals from a satellite in orbit, and flying aboard a low-flying plane over Greenland, are finding fresh evidence of melting snows and thinning glaciers in vast areas of the massive island.
Their observations confirm the climate’s warming trend in the far northern reaches of the world, they [...]
National Trails Day - No Excuses!
Tom Mangan posts a reminder:
Reminder: National Trails Day is tomorrow. … For all you Nor-Cal folks, the Bay Area Ridge Trail organization has a bunch of stuff happening tomorrow. The Santa Clara County Open Space Authority also has a little shindig happening in south San Jose.
Here’s a Goggle News search [...]