I’ve plucked Huddart Park in San Mateo County from the many fine suggestions that arrived yesterday. What’s next: hiking there this Sunday and perhaps the one after that. Naturally, bahiker.com has Huddart covered. Jane Huber compares it to nearby Wunderlich…
San Mateo County Parks
A great hike to nowhere at Purisima Creek
by tom • April 26, 2008 • 2 Comments
There’s a rarely traveled corner of Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve where the trail goes deeper and deeper in to the woods, the grass gets taller and taller, and then, ultimately, the trail fades to nothing. I hiked this…
Latest hike: Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
by tmangan • October 8, 2007 • 3 Comments
On a clear day you can see Sunnyvale. The operative question being: why would you want to? Sunday was one of the clearest, see-all-the-way-to-San Francisco days in recent memory (which, in my case, goes back to about last Thursday, though,…
Latest Hikes column: Wunderlich County Park
by tmangan • October 4, 2007 • 0 Comments
Read it & weep in today’s Mercury News: It’s a passable getaway on weekends, but the parking lot fills up quickly, a consequence of its shady, sanely graded trails and easy proximity to Interstate 280, Woodside and Portola Valley. Wunderlich…
Latest hike: Wunderlich County Park
by tmangan • September 10, 2007 • 1 Comment
You won’t get lost at Wunderlich. The signs won’t let you. Perhaps all the San Mateo County Parks Department sites have signs this good — it’ll be worth checking out the rest to see for myself. Every trail junction is…
Purisima Creek column posted
by tmangan • June 21, 2007 • 0 Comments
My latest column at the paper is here.
Deep in the woods at Purisima
by tmangan • June 3, 2007 • 9 Comments
Summertime’s upon us in Silicon Valley and I’ve finally gotten it into my head that it’s not necessary to spend every weekend sweating through dusty trails on hills that have gone from green to brown. Along the Santa Cruz Mountains…
10 miles at Purisima Creek Redwoods OSP
by tmangan • December 4, 2006 • 1 Comment
On Sunday, I hiked with a bunch of folks from Bay Area Linkup who gathered at Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. The trailhead is on Highway 35, otherwise known as Skyline Drive, a few miles north of Woodside. The…
A moist walk to Tafoni Monolith
by tmangan • May 21, 2006 • 2 Comments
So I sat on my fanny for five gorgeous, sunny days that were supposed to be a vacation last week. I was figuring on getting in some hikes and maybe a camp-out till the Festival of Phlegm came to town.…