Posted by Miguel Vieira on 2010 January 30th
I hadn’t been to Mount Diablo since my trip up Eagle Peak in November. But today was one of the first clear days after two weeks of daily rain, so Elizabeth and I took advantage of it with a quick morning hike to Mount Diablo’s Falls Trail.
When we started at 8:30 in the morning it was [...]
Posted by Miguel Vieira on 2009 November 26th
Elizabeth and I have gone on a morning hike every Thanksgiving for the last three years. This year was no different.
We’d gone to Las Trampas in previous years, but today I wanted to try somewhere new, yet still nearby. I chose to hike the northeast part of Briones Regional Park. It’s just 20 minutes away [...]
Posted by Miguel Vieira on 2009 November 22nd
Today’s plan was to hike a loop over Eagle Peak on single-track trails. We’d be joined by Elizabeth’s friend Alice, who had just finished an internship at the Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy in southern Oregon and who is visiting us for a few days. We slept in this morning and didn’t get to the trailhead [...]
Posted by Miguel Vieira on 2009 November 14th
A short hike after a 5-week hiatus.