Steve records a couple who tell how far you should poop from major water sources, plus other interesting details. From the script: EMILY RESSLER: And then another thing we like to talk about is what we call micro litter. And…
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Some nice Henry Coe backpacking pictures
by tom • July 31, 2008 • 0 Comments
Megan Miller of the Momentrance blog and her guy went backpacking at Henry Coe State Park last weekend. Check out the slide show. Megan also has cool jazz combo (she tickles the ivories). Always nice to discover hikers with actual…
Edible wild plants in the Bay Area
by tom • July 31, 2008 • 0 Comments
Some of the wild flora growing along Bay Area trails is edible … for instance, I know a wild blackberry and a patch of miner’s lettuce when I see one. Some of it, though, does stuff your body doesn’t like,…
Two-way radios for hiking
by tom • July 30, 2008 • 5 Comments
I’ve been on group hikes where folks carry along little two-way radios, which are a notch above those walkie-talkies we played with as kids. The range isn’t great, especially when there are hills and trees in the way, but as…
Link payback: Orinda Hiking Club
by tom • July 30, 2008 • 0 Comments
I’m thinking if you live in Orinda you pretty much have to belong to a hiking club (it’s a village in the hills east of Berkeley), to catch up on who’s not talking to whom and such. But anyway: The…
Birthday shout-out to Marion in Tahoe
by tom • July 30, 2008 • 0 Comments
Marion Vermazen, last seen on the Tahoe Rim Trail, adds another anniversary of her terrestrial arrival. Marion’s a hiker/blogger/Silicon Valley high-tech retiree who has been known to haunt these parts of the hiking blogosphere. (Hat tip to Facebook’s birthday feature.)
New Facebook page
by tom • July 29, 2008 • 4 Comments
Two-Heel Drive now has a Facebook page for all you Web 2.0 types. It’s actually a handy thing to have around: it lets fans post pictures, and allows events to be posted and discussions to be created. Now all we…
Lots o’ Bay Area hiking and blogging happening
by tom • July 29, 2008 • 5 Comments
One of my favorite rationalizations for maintaining Two-Heel Drive on wages a Kalahari Bushman would reject out of hand is that it encourages other hikers to get out there and come home and post accounts of their travels. I admit…
Victoria on Tomales Point
by tom • July 29, 2008 • 0 Comments
The webmistress of the Flirty ‘n’ Dirty blog generally runs trails vs. walking them, but she’s had a raft of nice trail descriptions of late. She was at one of my faves, Tomales Point at Point Reyes National Seashore, the…