{"id":915,"date":"2007-01-08T21:07:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T02:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=915"},"modified":"2007-01-08T21:07:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T02:07:03","slug":"local-hike-recommendation-las-trampas-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/08\/local-hike-recommendation-las-trampas-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Local hike recommendation: Las Trampas Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gambolin Man<\/a>, who hails from Berkeley, sent the following on Monday:<\/p>\n

\nSame day you were on the Mountain<\/a>, I was hiking her unheralded sister ridges at Las Trampas — have you ever been there? I am in awe every time I go there. There are two ridge hikes (running east to west, or is that west to east?) that are superb – an elevated landscape with faraway 360 views (I could see Mt. St. Helena!), Tuyshtak dominating ever so close (even though a 10 mile wide valley separates!), a roller coastery classic ridge hike along a mega-spine of tortured uplift – nice big rock formations, pretty zen sandstone gardens, fragrant black sage, up at the crests. And once up – this is tough, rugged country — it’s truly like being in an island in the sky.<\/p>\n

(Downsides? Well, the usual suspects, especially car noise from the 680 below (Alamo, Danville side) But it’s not ever-present, and at times it just sounds like a roaring river. People stay away because of that, as well as cows graze there (didn’t see any on entire hike); it’s horsemen country (didn’t encounter a single horseman) – other than that, what downside, for cryin’ out loud???!!!) (Side note: the other ridge, Rocky Ridge, rises to over 2000 ft, and descends into intriguing and very remote \/ rugged EBMUD lands to Devil’s Hole, Ramage Peak, etc. . .only occasional air traffic this ridge.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This hike sounds promising, though the Gamboleer tends to make all his hikes sound that way. He suggests a weekend day in February. Any takers? Gambolin’ Man’s last Las Trampas hike write-up is here.<\/a> I’ve never been there so I figure it’s worth a look.
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Bay Area Hiker write-up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gambolin Man, who hails from Berkeley, sent the following on Monday: Same day you were on the Mountain, I was hiking her unheralded sister ridges at Las Trampas — have you ever been there? I am in awe every time…<\/p>\n

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":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}