Monthly Archives: August 2013

You may be familiar with the Beverly Hillbillies if you watched 1960’s Black and White TV reruns (…or was it just that my parents TV was B&W when I was a kid?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzaxUF0k18 …but did you know that there’s natural … Continue reading →

Not quite as exciting as my longer adventures, especially because we were walking inside of a cloud for 3 hours! I’m a “Junior” member of a local hiking group, composed of retired guys from the Palo Alto and Los Altos … Continue reading →

Yesterday I enjoyed a huge 11 hour day in Henry Coe State Park! I started Geocaching in late 2005 and credit it for expanding my horizons of the immense network of trails and parks in and around Silicon Valley. There … Continue reading →

A mini-adventure, including looking for a hidden gravesite, this morning near Silicon Valley! A toasty day, with a temperature of 93F at one point. (One of these days I’ll try Columbia’s wicking shirts. For now I use my old collection … Continue reading →

The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, near Santa Cruz CA, has miles of established trails in lush second growth redwood forest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forest_of_Nisene_Marks_State_Park …however, with all the established single track trails and double track “fire roads”, there are many acres … Continue reading →

Most folks who live in the Adirondacks Mountains of New York don’t even know some of the unusual events in local history. I Just plowed through a book that’s been on my shelf for awhile “Castorland: French Refugees in the Western … Continue reading →

Well, this weekday local adventure started out with a big, bad adrenaline rush. I parked my car near the historic Madronia Cemetery in Saratoga, CA (http://www.madroniacemetery.com/) to start my cycling trip. It was a quiet thursday morning, and I stopped … Continue reading →