Tom Kotynski of Great Falls, Montana, retired newsman and active author of the Out There With Tom blog, dropped me a note asking for recommendations for hikes and climbs around Shaver and Huntington Lakes. I haven’t visited these lakes but…
Daily Archives: July 19, 2007
Latest Hikes column: Sanborn-Skyline County Park
by tmangan • July 19, 2007 • 0 Comments
From my Hikes column at the Mercury News. Early birds get the trails to themselves at Sanborn-Skyline, the popular Santa Clara County park just west of Saratoga. While the early hikers get the best rewards at pretty much any park,…
Where’s the go-to site for Bay Area outdoorspeople?
by tmangan • July 19, 2007 • 1 Comment
Interesting quote I just stumbled upon: “Few residents and fewer visitors realize that no other major metropolitan center holds such an extensive system of natural areas. The extraordinary total of wild greenbelts in the Bay Area exceeds Yosemite National Park…
More ways to meet hikers: meetup.com, tribe.net
by tmangan • July 19, 2007 • 0 Comments
Today’s sites worth seeing: Tribe.net and meetup.com. I posted a note flogging our new Bay Area focus at Tribe.net’s Bay Area Hiking tribe and got a reply from a guy offering to lead anthropological hikes around the area. Of course…