Chalk this up to market capitalism: when you hike for pay you do things like: Go solo because you can’t afford to be distracted. Walk fast but stop constantly to take scads of meticulously framed pictures in the hope that…
Yearly Archives: 2008
Building a new site: Hike Hacker
by tom • August 8, 2008 • 11 Comments
Hey, the domain was available (nothing there yet, though). So, here’s the deal: Having written about almost everyplace worth hiking in the Bay Area, I’m working on something new a site inspired by Life Hacker (and all the other “hacker”…
Climb every mountain
by tom • August 6, 2008 • 9 Comments
I don’t have much stomach for exploiting tragedies … the 11 mountaineers who perished on K2 were not hikers (and might’ve slapped anybody who called them such) … so I have a plausible excuse for not adding my voice to…
iPhone 3G battery blues
by tom • August 6, 2008 • 5 Comments
I put my iPhone through its paces on the nearby Guadalupe River Trail yesterday, using pretty much every feature built into it. With iTunes running in the background, I walked for about two hours, snapped and uploaded 40 low-resolution pictures…
High Sierra linkage
by tom • August 5, 2008 • 2 Comments
As long as other people are going to the high peaks and writing up their experiences, I feel absolved of the responsibility. Hey, I got married, that’s enough commitment for one life. This morning I found all sorts of evidence…
Climbing Mount Whitney on Labor Day weekend?
by tom • August 4, 2008 • 5 Comments
Got this missive from a San Jose reader hoping to summit Mount Whitney on Labor Day weekend: I am hoping to hike Mt. Whitney on Sun, Aug 31, 2008 but do not have a permit. Given that is the Labor…
Addressing my public at Sunol Wilderness
by tom • August 4, 2008 • 5 Comments
This is a first: meeting not one but two Two-Heel Drive readers for the first time on the same day. I decided to tag along with Mike Wimble’s FOMFOK gang because they were heading out to my all-time favorite Bay…
See it here first: five summer hikes for California travelers
by tom • August 1, 2008 • 4 Comments
Turns out the Mercury News wants at least one more hiking related item: a Sunday travel cover feature recommending five great late-summer hikes within a day’s drive of San Jose. The hikes are Panorama Trail at Yosemite, Lassen Peak summit,…
New on the WildeBeat: Leave No Trace Third Principle
by tom • July 31, 2008 • 5 Comments
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…