{"id":1332,"date":"2007-06-29T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2011-03-05T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T03:54:13","slug":"hiking-clubs-of-note-in-the-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/hiking-clubs-of-note-in-the-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking clubs of note in the Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gone on hikes with all of these groups at one time or another:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarealinkup.com\/index.php?cat=outdoors\">Bay Area Linkup: <\/a>This is where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawinehikes.com\/\">Winehiker Russ<\/a> organizes <del>all<\/del> <em>many of<\/em> his hikes. There&#8217;s a monthly fee after a free trial period.   Just so&#8217;s you&#8217;ll know: Linkup rules are enforced with a zeal that would give the Church Lady a screaming orgasm.\n<\/li>\n<div id=\"breakout\"><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/05\/22\/etiquette-for-group-hikes-how-to-behave-in-the-presence-of-other-humans\/\">Etiquette for group hikes<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/finding-people-to-hike-with-at-meetupcom\/\">Finding people to hike with at Meetup.com<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/best\/hiking-bay-area-california\">Best Bay Area hikes.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/best\/hiking-marin-california\">Best Marin County hikes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawbw.com\/~svw\/inch\/\">Intrepid Northern California Hikers (INCH):<\/a> Notorious for stupendously strenuous hikes. They hike hard, they hike fast &#8212; they do wait around for stragglers but if  you&#8217;re slow, don&#8217;t expect anybody to hang back to keep you company.  If you&#8217;re into brisk 20-milers with 4,000 feet of elevation gain, INCH is your kind of club.  INCH <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawbw.com\/~svw\/inch\/diary.php\">hike write-ups<\/a> are often breezy and entertaining.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webself.com\/~fomfok\/\">FOMFOK<\/a>:  Mike Wimble and his wife, Kathy, of Sunnyvale lead mostly moderate hikes around the South Bay and in the Santa Cruz mountains.  I&#8217;ve hiked with them a bunch of times because a) they&#8217;re good company on the trail; and b) they hike at my pace, which could be charitably described as &#8220;comfortable.&#8221; Mike always hauls a big camera along so I know I&#8217;ll have time to stop and take pictures.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hiking.bondon.com\/\">East Bay Casual Hiking: <\/a> I went on at least one outing with  this group when I was just getting into hiking. It seems well-organized. Most of the hikes are closer to Contra Costa County rather than, say, Fremont or Hayward in the southern end of the East Bay.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lomaprieta.sierraclub.org\/\">Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter: <\/a>  Steve Sergeant of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildebeat.net\">The Wildebeat <\/a>hangs out here and leads backpacking outings.   Sierra Club folks are known for keeping a brisk pace &#8212; I once hiked with a couple of ultra-marathoners who described being passed by Sierra Club hikers during one of their races.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/NorthCA_Hiking\/\">NorthCA_Hiking:<\/a> A Yahoo Groups club that goes on hikes and backpacking outings around Sacramento and  the Sierra. Very welcoming folks who had me along for a couple overnighters last summer. You have to request to be allowed into the group &#8212; this keeps the spammers away. Several members are from the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><P>More clubs who have Web sites (props to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/evbuck\/\">this page<\/a> for assembling these):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bajshc.org\/home.html\">Bay Area Jewish Singles Hiking Club <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/baoc.org\/wiki\/Welcome\">Bay Area Orienteering Club. <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleyhikingclub.pair.com\/\">Berkeley Hiking Club <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleypaths.org\/\">Berkeley Path Wanderers Association<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastwalk.org\/\">Coastwalk<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/contracostahills\/\">Contra Costa Hills Club<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/haywardhikers\/\">Hayward Hiking Club<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geocities.com\/montclairhikers\/schedule.html\">Montclair Hiking Club<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/northbaychristianhikers.com\/_wsn\/page2.html\">North Bay Christian Hikers<\/a><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orindahiking.org\/\">Orinda Hiking Club<\/a><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/pacifictrailsociety\/\">Pacific Trail Society <\/a><\/p>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfhiking.com\/\">San Francisco Hiking Club <\/a><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/outing\/\">Stanford Outing Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/womenhiking.org\/\"><br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s East Bay Hiking Club<\/a><br \/>\n<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>Now  you can&#8217;t say you can&#8217;t find anybody to hike with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;s a monthly fee after a free trial period. Just so&#8217;s you&#8217;ll&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/hiking-clubs-of-note-in-the-bay-area\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}