Almaden Quicksilver this time, hiking through the park with Antony on the Bay Area Ridge Trail route. Beautiful weather! Two cache finds for me, three zillion signpost and flower photos (or “photies” as he calls them) for Antony, about 5½ miles of hiking, with a car staged at each end. My pics. His pics on […]

What else can – or should – I add? It was a very enjoyable and moderate solo hike of around 6.4 miles. on a comfortable and occasionally very windy afternoon. The gallery.

Spring had just officially begun so it must be time for the annual trek up to the top of El Toro in Morgan Hill. Joe and Antony were each hiking elsewhere this year but the “Hillside Stragglers” hiking crew was game for it! I made it clear from the start that we we would head […]

It was the last day of my work contract, and I’d still not heard of whether or not it would be extended. I had a cache fairly close by (about 5 miles) that I wanted to check out, and the weather had warmed up to where it was going to be reasonable there. You could […]