Tom (at Two-Heel Drive) has just posted a piece on his recent hiking trip at Mt. Madonna park south of the San Jose Area.
I used to go there many years ago to use their field archery range, but I have to say I’ve never hiked in that park. From Tom’s description, it seems [...]
Lower Young Lake, Mount Conness. Yosemite National Park, California. September 11, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
I have hiked the well-travelled path from Tuolumne Meadows past Dog Lake to Young Lakes several times. Every time I’ve crossed Dingley Creek, about 3.5 miles out on this trail, I’ve thought of two things: that the view of [...]
It looks like it will probably be Monday (rather than Sunday, as originally planned) but I’m going to head up to the Tuolumne/Tioga region for a few days this week to do some early summer hiking and photography. I understand that the campground is still working in first-come-first-served mode, so I’ll try to get up [...]
From an SFGate article: Rangers re-examining safety of popular hike after a fatal fall from cables during final ascent
Nohara didn’t have time to speak or even shout before he slid off the side of Half Dome to his death, becoming the third fatality within a year off the 4,800-foot granite dome.
The death of Nohara on [...]
Tom Stienstra at SFGate describes the hike to a Sierra peak that I must visit - it shares my last name!
An overlooked hike that should be on everybody’s list. From 10,365-foot Mitchell Peak, you can extend your arms and feel like the entire Sierra Nevada is within your reach. Scanning from right to left, you [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I hiked in a park that I visited often when I was younger, but where I have hiked infrequently in recent years. When I was a kid my family would often go to Big Basin State Park between (what was not yet known as) Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz, often to picnic and play [...]
Tom Mangan (of Two-Heel Drive) has another trail article in the Murky News this week. (And do you have to be named Tom to have an outdoor column in a Bay Area paper? :-)
Hikes: Sunol Regional Wilderness - It has hiking. It has camping. It has cows. Sunol Regional Wilderness even has a stony canyon [...]
Tom Stienstra of SFGate:
Coast offseason a turn-on / This year’s dry winter is perfect for hiking some thrilling trails. In Fern Canyon, you walk along a creek, edged on both sides by nearly vertical walls of ferns, one of the most heart-touching spots in Northern California. On the Boy Scout Tree Trail, you hike amid [...]
Sunday’s Trip: Muir Woods
It has been a very long time since I’ve really visited Muir Woods north of San Francisco. Well, I did go a few years back with a group of friends, but we were really there to sample beers at the “guest house” in the hills above the park. In any case, yesterday I decided to [...]
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