As many of you know, the state of California is in a horrible budget crisis. Potentially on the chopping block: more than 200 state parks in California, many of which are right here in the Bay Area and part of my training hikes. Learn more and find out how to take action. I can’t imagine …
Mapping fun: Trails GPS Tracker for iPhone
This new Trails GPS Tracker for the iPhone rocks. Here’s my walk to work yesterday. The stats on the iPhone put my pace at 17 minute miles. Not bad for a day I was trying hard not to get sweaty while heading to the office… To work EveryTrail – Find the best Walking Tours in …
Coming soon: Jodi trail tracking
I just splurged ($3.99) on an iPhone app that promises to track my hiking and walking progress for me, complete with elevation maps, walking time and even my walking speed. We’ll see if the Trails GPS Tracker is as good as it promises with my walk to work tomorrow (extra early too – I have …
Wildflowers of San Bruno Mountain
San Bruno Mountain State Park is pretty unassuming. You drive past it on Highway 101 as you pass South San Francisco from SF. From the roadway beneath it looks like a relatively tree-less expanse of hills, covered in grass or brush that goes from springtime green to summertime brown. While not entirely untrue, the thing …
Care package to one lucky donor!
I’m looking for creative ways to raise that {gulp} $4,000 that I still need to raise. So how about this, one lucky person who donates to my hike before July 4 will get a tasty care package with homemade goodies from baker Jodi. I’ll randomly pick from the names of all my donors at that …
Forests, streets and city stairs… oh my!
Getting fit is a pain… literally. I pretty much ache all over today. I did a lot of pushups yesterday which is the main culprit, but I’ve also been walking & hiking a lot lately too, from the 2.2-mile uphill walk home from work to the weekend hours-long team hikes. My cavs and butt could …
Back on the trail in 2009
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted to this blog. A lot has happened since my Grand Canyon hike in 2006; hard to believe that was more than three years ago. I’m still in San Francisco, but working a different gig (at SFGate.com now). I’m a few years older, but trying to pretend that ain’t true. …
Grand adventure on the Grand Canyon’s Grand View Trail
Well I did it. I hiked the toughest trail on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon (Grand View Trail) and survived. Hope I didn’t have any of you worried with my delay in posting this blog entry. It took me some time to get the photos in order. Was it as tough as I …
Dinner at Eliza’s this past Tuesday
I just got my photos up from a little buddy group get-together at Eliza’s – a yummy Chinese restaurant on California Ave. View the photos here We had a great meal and swapped gifts. Lois, our mentor, got us each a bag of hike essentials, from tiger balm to mini-bottles of champagne. We got her …
The final countdown
T minus 9.5 hours to lift-off. Ok, not lift-off into the canyon, but lift-off into the car to the airport. We have a bright a bright and early flight tomorrow a.m. and a few of us are carpooling to the airport, so I’m looking at a 4:30 a.m. pick-up tomorrow. Funny thing is everyone in …