Yesterday I decided to join the multimedia revolution and take all video clips rather than still images on my weekly outing. I started at Mission Peak because I know the hill by heart and hiking to the top in mid-August…
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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,…
Mission Peak in the afternoon
by tom • January 28, 2008 • 4 Comments
The light at Mission Peak was amazing this afternoon. In honor of my previous post linking to my first-ever Mission Peak summit, I decided to head up there again this afternoon. Oddly enough, after days and days of storms and…
First time I climbed Mission Peak
by tom • January 28, 2008 • 1 Comment
For those who haven’t been reading along since the summer of 2004, here’s a look back at the day I figured out I could be a hiker. About three-quarters of the way up, I’m starting to tire out. I walk…
Latest Hikes column: Mission Peak
by tom • December 20, 2007 • 1 Comment
Posted today at www.mercurynews.com A few hours at Mission Peak Regional Preserve might make you wonder if the United Nations has a West Coast hiking club. Fremont’s signature peak attracts people from everywhere. I’ve chatted with hikers from India, China,…
Mission Peak from Ohlone College
by tom • December 3, 2007 • 9 Comments
I don’t go on many hikes that make me glad I’m done and wished I’d chosen wiser, but this was one of them. I’d hiked Mission Peak Regional preserve from every direction, save one: the parking lot at Ohlone College…
On a Mission
by tmangan • July 25, 2004 • 4 Comments
The scene: Mission Peak summit. I’m looking due west at a layer of clouds — a flat, fluffy white lawn of condensation — at eye level. The whole valley has been fogged in all morning, and the only way to…