Two-Heel Drive is a blog for hikers, campers, backpackers and nature cravers in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Need someplace to go? I've hiked all the best Bay Area trails: check out my favorite hikes or read the park profiles I wrote for the San Jose Mercury News.
Point Lobos State Preserve Seemonterery.com suggests nine worth tramping.
Frankly you cannot go wrong on any of the hikes along the Pacific Coast from Monterey down deep into Big Sur. I’ve done Point Lobos a few times, and camped out one night at Andrew Molera State Park. Truly gorgeous, though crowded on the weekends.
My track record is impressive: in two weeks nobody’s bought into any of the cool gear deal scans I made up. Doesn’t bug me a bit: I have more fun setting them up than I’ll ever get from the nickels and dimes they’ll send my way. Yes, being a blogger makes people strange. Anyway, If you’re curious:
Saving California's state parks
Found this at Blog Monterey: A 1935 documentary called “Land of the Giants” profiling Civilian Conservation Corps work in California’s parks.
Must viewing for fans of our state parks. The National Archives is screening a bunch of historic films at its YouTube site. The vid above is from a series on the Great Depression.
Peaks near Tahoe, Nov. 2008I once asked Fedak what he did for a living; he replied in English, the words all recognizable, but I have no idea what the hell it was. But it was something in high-tech, where business sucks this summer, so John’s renting a place up near Lake Tahoe and trekking the season away till business picks up.
A visit to his home page shows he’s been putting in major miles above the tree line.
Credit: Gary Chambers Barb, last seen advising on how to take a babe in arms on an overnighter, has the second in her four-part series posted at Trailspace.com, this time on the 2-to-5 years.
These can be the crazy years, she notes, given that ambulatory kids have two speeds: “hell no, I won’t go” and “now where the hell did she go.” But if you’re determined enough, these years offer the best chance to imprint a love of the outdoors on your kids that will last a lifetime.
I’ve got pretty much all the infrastructure in place for the hiking gear bargains pages, including a home page with links to everything else. This page includes a bunch of links to RSS feeds for coupons and specialized searches. I’m going to try to update the page frequently but hopefully I won’t have to bug everybody here with news of every update from here on in.
This rather lurid report from the local NBC affiliate has the most details on the passing of hiker Linda Fradkin, 57, of San Mateo, who died yesterday at Santa Theresa County Park. Condolences to her family and friends.
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Bay Nature has an excellent short video on the virtues of coyotes. Bottom line: the presence of large predators in an ecosystem proves it’s working at all levels.
I’m frankly getting sick of filling all my perfectly good Bay Area hiking pages with a constant stream of merchandising (and I imagine it’s 10 times worse in your case). So I created a Twitter feed where I’ll post all future deal-related links.
Here’s the feed, follow me if the urge hits.
You knew this had to be coming: scans on all the GPS and other outdoor electronic goodies at my retail affiliates. Click and be happy:
(That’s enough hawking; I’ll get back to hiking soon — I know … promises, promises).