I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seethed in impotent rage at having to put up with large Ponderosa pines blocking my inalienable right to soak up all there is to see at Yosemite’s Tunnel View. Finally, this crime…
Yearly Archives: 2008
Wanted: Hiker vigilantes
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 8 Comments
Rick at Hike Half Dome mentions getting a sticker on his window from the Fremont cops in the Mission Peak parking lot reminding him not to leave his windows open. He’d left a one-inch gap to let the heat escape.…
Bolinas Lagoon wildlife preserve reopening
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 0 Comments
Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Bolinas Lagoon Preserve, three miles north of Stinson Beach, reopens this weekend and stays open till July 13. The pitch: it’s when 100 nesting pairs of egrets and herons return to a grove of redwoods near the…
A bunch more “Scared Indoors” links
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 0 Comments
Steve amassed a list of links to discussions about his “Scared Indoors” series of podcasts. Check it out.
Wildflower intelligence, surveillance needed
by tom • March 13, 2008 • 9 Comments
I’m seeing hints of wildflower season — lots o’ poppies on steep, sunny hillsides, mainly — but I can’t be everywhere so I figured I may as well ask what the rest of you are seeing out there. So, let’s…
Gear Junkie in Norway
by tom • March 12, 2008 • 0 Comments
This has nothing to do with hiking, or the Bay Area, it’s just a cool thing to do: Touring the crazy-beautiful Norway coastline, which is what lucky sod Stephen Regenold will be up to for the next few days. Specifically,…
El Toro hike in Morgan Hill scheduled
by tom • March 12, 2008 • 9 Comments
HEADS UP: This post is for the 2008 El Toro hike … the 2009 hike already happened (March 28). Google has been sending people to the wrong year’s post. Morgan Hill Historical Society has one hike planned — at 8…
A note for those camping in the Appalachian Trail shelters
by tom • March 11, 2008 • 2 Comments
Sgt. Rock says there’s only one plausible reason for duct tape on the ceiling: It snowed all night best as I could tell. It also turned out the shelter roof leaks. I woke up at about 0330 to a bag…
PCT journal to watch: Emily’s Dad
by tom • March 11, 2008 • 4 Comments
I went trolling for interesting candidates to follow for this hiking season. I was hoping to find some Bay Area types who are doing the trail this year (I did, but I’ll get back to that) but one journal stopped…