I am fairly sure that I am not the only human who feels like we are ridiculously lucky with the richness of the East Bay Regional Park District. One of my bucket list goals is to visit every East Bay Regional Park (13 more to go– and that’s including all of them, like the by-appointment-only…
First off, Portola Redwoods State Park is no secret. It’s a beautiful park set deep in the redwoods, on the Peninsula. Towering redwoods, fat banana slugs, shady nooks, hikes of varying difficulty– Portola Redwoods has it all, and you definitely need to reserve in advance. However, we found out this October that there are some…
Last year, we made reservations in Point Reyes at Sky Camp, a mere 1.4 miles from the trail head. We figured it would be a good opportunity for the then-3 year old to rather slowly get herself to the campsite on her own power. However, that was one of the weekends that it absolutely poured.…
When I was growing up, my parents took us backpacking in the Sierras every summer. We usually base camped at a lake, and as people familiar with Sierra lakes know, many of them are in basins carved out by glaciers. This means that quite a few Sierra lakes involve a tough climb during the last…
I have lived in the Bay Area for a long time– over 20 years, in fact. And until fairly recently (5 years ago?), I had no idea Hood Mountain Regional Park existed. If you haven’t explored Hood Mountain, I highly recommend you get on that. Today’s post is on a more focused part of Hood…
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