I managed to omit Gambolin’ Man’s blog from the collection of essential sites I posted the other day. Its owner, who also has the good sense to be named Tom, is a honcho of sorts at the University of California at Berkeley but there’s nothing boss-like at his blog, where he loves to write at length about his travels on trails around the Bay Area. He also was the one who introduced me to the excellent Las Trampas Regional Wilderness in Contra Costa County. He has foot issues that oblige him to break out his bicycle for wheeled (vs. heeled) adventures, like biking all day to the top of Mount Hamilton, one of the truly hard-core routes in the region.