Poking around at the BAHIKER.com discussion boards the other day yielded a couple interesting links:
- North Bay Hikes: Rob Laddish built this site for his hiking group. Lots of pictures and hike write-ups from Marin, the coast and points northward. Bonus link: Condor close-ups on a page of pictures from a camp-out Pinnacles National Monument (scroll down about half way). The site runs a bit slow, but hey, if we wanted fast, we’d ride bikes.
- Baychic’s Xanga page: One of our most frequent commenters of late, she’s been posting a link to her page with her posts, but there’s one catch: you have to sign up with Xanga to view it. Curiosity finally overcame my ingrained laziness so I became a Xanga member just to see what she’s been posting: as expected, it’s many of the sites we’ve been visiting in the past few months.
- Hikin’ the Bay… but not quite like the Dharma Bums: Gotta like any blog with a Jack Kerouac reference in the title. It’s mostly hike write-ups and pictures of the kind we’ve become familiar with. The latest outing at Wildcat Canyon Regional Park looks most interesting.
Speaking of the BAHiker discussion board, I had never really noticed the Trip Reports section, which has bunches of dispatches from Two-Heel Drive regulars like Gambolin’ Man. For instance, you can check out Baychic’s Skyline-to-the-Sea adventure.
sweet, two shout outs in one blog! thx.
The Conlon Trail in Wildcat Canyon is even better, in my opinion. It’s longer but you have even better views and it’s very, very rare that I see other humans on this trail. (It does have cows a-plenty. This is my stomping ground, as Alvarado Staging Area is the nearest trailhead from my house. (http://flirtyndirty.blogspot.com/2008/05/conlon-trail.html for my write-up–admittedly from a trail running (not hiking) perspective.)