This past weekend I got to tag along on a four day outing to the Eastern Sierra. This trip differed from my usual hiking adventures – it was with the Geocachers of the Bay Area 4×4 group and organized by bthomas, a cacher, hiker, and 4x4er. The trip started off Thursday morning with Motorbug and [...]
I invited some geocaching friends out on a backpacking trip this weekend. Since I knew it would be a first backpacking trip for some people, I decided to choose a destination that was nice and easy with other attractions, like geocaches, fishing, swimming, etc. Island Lake in Tahoe National Forest is one of my favorite [...]
I almost forgot to post my photos from last weekend! Before it gets too hot, I wanted to visit a new East Bay park. I settled on Pleasanton Ridge and met a couple of others there for a day of hiking and geocaching. It was a good place for wildflowers, but I wouldn’t want to [...]
Dave and I spent the weekend at Pinnacles National Monument. The park recently acquired a large parcel of new land and this land includes the old campground that used to be just outside the East entrance. The land needs a lot work since it has missed out on the preservation done within the park, and [...]
Yesterday David and I headed to Calero for a geocaching dayhike (err, Death March). It was a perfect day for a bay area hike – not hot, not cold, and the sun came out pretty quickly. Wildflowers are starting to bloom and the star lilies are plentiful. We saw a small cluster of poppies, so [...]
Last summer I got word of two new hand held GPS receivers that would be entering the market in late 2007/early 2008: the Magellan Triton and the Garmin Colorado. The Triton hit the market first, and the release was a disaster. The units suffered hardware and software issues, and they have been pulled from the [...]
Finally! It’s been way too long since I’ve been able to get out on a simple local dayhike, but today was the day. After last week’s nasty storms it felt great to get out under the clear blue sky and bright sun. Today’s destination was Almaden Quicksilver County Park, a unique park with as much [...]
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