I made another dash down to Butano State Park and did some more poking around on trails I missed Sunday. I’ll just jump straight to the pictures this time: One of the crossings on the Six Bridges Trail, which starts…
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Latest hike: Butano State Park
by tmangan • August 6, 2007 • 5 Comments
My feet found fresh voice for their complaints along around mile 12. Right ankle decided with no prodding whatsoever to convey aches (and angst: what if I’ve got plantar fasciitis?) as I was working my way down the Jackson Flats…
Latest Hikes column: Portola Redwoods State Park
by tmangan • August 2, 2007 • 3 Comments
Posted at Mercurynews.com: The Old Tree is just a dot on the map of Portola Redwoods State Park – until you stand before its mind-boggling bulk and try to take it all in. It’s 297 feet tall, 12 feet across,…
Yet another Portola Redwoods State Park hike
by tmangan • July 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
It can’t be an epic adventure every week (and given my proclivities for safe, easily accessible nearby trails, my adventurers aren’t all that adventurous anyway). This week it was a few hours at Portola Redwoods State Park with Mike Wimble…
Latest hike: Angel Island State Park
by tmangan • July 15, 2007 • 2 Comments
Summary of the price tag for Sunday’s jaunt to Angel Island State Park: Parking in Tiburon: $11 Ferry to the island: $13 Golden Gate Bridge toll: $5 Five gallons of gas for 120-mile round trip: $16.25 (Note to self: find…
Latest hike: Portola Redwoods State Park
by tmangan • July 8, 2007 • 2 Comments
Next scouting mission for my Mercury News “Hikes” column: Portola Redwoods State Park. Portola’s another of those “second-growth” redwood forests that sprang up after the previous redwood forest got clear-cut. The park map shows the Old Tree Trail about a…
Latest Hikes column posted
by tmangan • July 5, 2007 • 2 Comments
It’s a pretty quick take on a very big park. The intro: There’s a tree-hugger born every minute at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. The seductive charms of the park’s towering ancient redwoods become evident the minute you step on…
Big Basin from the back side
by tmangan • June 17, 2007 • 4 Comments
I wondered why that farm worker was giving me that strange look. Maybe it was because he has a backbreaking job providing all the exercise he requires and he can’t imagine why people would walk for recreation when General Motors…
Big Basin minus the waterfalls
by tmangan • June 10, 2007 • 4 Comments
This week’s hike is more prep work for an upcoming column in the local paper. Sorry if it sounds like a broken record, but if I blog about stuff for which there is an actual paycheck I can delude myself…