Jane Huber, author of “60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Francisco,” has the most extensive online guide to Bay Area hikes at bahiker.com. The site includes recommendations based on time of year, has a page of hikes sorted by difficulty,…
Bay Area hiking clubs
Hiking clubs of note in the Bay Area
by tmangan • June 29, 2007 • 8 Comments
I’ve gone on hikes with all of these groups at one time or another: Bay Area Linkup: This is where Winehiker Russ organizes all many of his hikes. There’s a monthly fee after a free trial period. Just so’s you’ll…
Tom's travels
Why build a blog on Bay Area hiking?
by tmangan • June 29, 2007 • 0 Comments
Mostly because Northern California has more trails than it knows what to do with. Marin County alone has over 500 miles of hiking trails and I’ve trod perhaps a dozen, so the field is wide open. I started Two-Heel Drive…
Tom's travels
Reinvention time
by tmangan • June 28, 2007 • 4 Comments
OK, so all my hard work of the last 20 months (OK, goofing off, but still…) has earned me an audience of about 200 people a day who actually visit my site and wonder when I’m going to get to…
Tom's travels
Forgive the rearranging
by tmangan • June 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
I felt like changing things around but I’ll probably change them back.
Gear
Montrail Continental Divide trail shoes
by tmangan • June 27, 2007 • 0 Comments
Ever since somebody suggested switching to trail runners from granite-bottomed hiking shoes, I’ve been all about the Montrails. The first pair I bought fit fine, wore like iron and never gave me blisters. (Granted, walking is relatively easy on trail…
Blogs
Love in a Tent Blog
by tmangan • June 27, 2007 • 3 Comments
Michelle Waitzman, author of “Sex in a Tent: a Wild Couple’s Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature,” writes many odes to sleeping under a thin layer of nylon in her blog. Based in New Zealand, she’s plugged in to the…
Fitness
Top 10 reasons to hike for fitness
by tmangan • June 27, 2007 • 1 Comment
1) The farther you walk, the more beers you can justify. 2) Walking the same way six times because you’re lost counts as reps. 3) No fear of falling off the treadmill. 4) No need to towel off the equipment.…
Mangan's memoirs
Caution: genius at work
by tmangan • June 26, 2007 • 0 Comments
Another one you non-RSS readers can ignore: When I was tweaking my RSS feeds to get them all back in working order, I accidentally redirected all my Two-Heel Drive readers to my home page, where a few of you got…