Coyote Hills Regional Park is along the San Francisco Bay’s Fremont shoreline. The hills are more like humps and half the trails are paved. A nice place for an easy stroll, and an excellent place to snap off a few…
Alameda County parks
Saturday at Mission Peak
by tmangan • January 28, 2007 • 2 Comments
This’ll be a quickie: I did the Horse Heaven Trail to the Mission Peak summit on Saturday and snapped a few interesting frames. It seemed like most of January had passed without a cloud in the sky, so it was…
Mission Peak again? Yeah
by tmangan • December 9, 2006 • 1 Comment
I’d do all my hikes at Mission Peak if the weather’d cooperate like it did on Saturday. Cloudy skies, light rain, prodigious mud and gale-force winds might not sound like cooperative conditions, but when you’ve done this hike several dozen…
Mission Peak in high winds
by tmangan • December 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
I have a hundred-dollar windbreaker imported from England, where they need such attire to fend off those North Sea gales. I had this jacket on Saturday when I stepped out of the Hiker Hauler at the base of Mission Peak,…
A pleasant hike
by tmangan • October 29, 2006 • 0 Comments
This is the driest, sunniest autumn of the three I’ve spent trudging through the Bay Area hills. For three weeks running I’ve had perfect picture-taking weather and pleasant, breezy miles on the trails. I can’t imagine how much mud I’ll…
More hills, more trees, more skies
by tmangan • October 16, 2006 • 0 Comments
Last weekend’s festivities in the wilds near Lake Shasta left me a bit glum at the prospect of finding new and interesting stuff to write about back in the in the comparatively mundane hills of the Bay Area. But then…
19 miles and counting
by tmangan • August 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Did those birds really just crash into each other, I wondered? I was hiking along the Ohlone Wilderness Trail, hearing the occasional raptor screeches from high above me, when I saw what appeared to be a midair collision at the…
Sunol in the sunshine
by tmangan • June 4, 2006 • 1 Comment
I knew I wanted to hike somewhere on Sunday; I just didn’t want to hike too hard, or think too hard, or drive too far. When the lazy gene kicks in, I start thinking about places where the pictures take…
Sunol, it’s good to know you
by tmangan • February 26, 2006 • 1 Comment
Another Sunday, another ramble with Mike and Kathy’s hiking club at Sunol Regional Wilderness. You can’t go wrong at Sunol, though we have tried, time and again. Mention Sunol to anybody who hikes in the Bay Area and wait for…