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Hikes: Sunol Regional Wilderness

Tom Mangan (of Two-Heel Drive) has another trail article in the Murky News this week. (And do you have to be named Tom to have an outdoor column in a Bay Area paper? :-)

Hikes: Sunol Regional Wilderness – It has hiking. It has camping. It has cows. Sunol Regional Wilderness even has a stony canyon called Little Yosemite, which is a little like Yosemite in the way a flower made of frosting is like a whole wedding cake.

Speaking of flowers, Sunol has bunches of wild ones sprouting this time of year. The poppies, lupines and shooting stars draw the biggest crowds to Sunol every spring. If you adore lovely things planted by the Unseen Hand of Nature, then this is the place to be.

I don’t go to Sunol for the flowers. I go for the hills, the rocks and the vistas, which are among the best in the Bay Area. Every visit brings pointed reminders that the hills are frequently high and the trails are frequently steep. The park headquarters is on a valley floor, and almost everything worth seeing is up in the hills.

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May 5, 2007 Posted by | Trails | Comments Off on Hikes: Sunol Regional Wilderness

More Right Than I Thought?

During the past week or so I have posted a few times about the prospective opening of Tioga Pass Road through Tuolumne Meadows between the Central Valley and Owens Valley. First I predicted that the road might open this past Thursday – based on historic opening dates and information could read about current road-clearing progress. Then when the road did not open this past week, I posted a mea culpa regarding my incorrect guess. (To be fair, I did not state with certainty that it would open on Thursday – I carefully hedge a lot… ;-)

Today I saw the following from Yosemite Blog, suggesting that my earlier prediction may not have been that far off the mark but for a bit of last minute weather in the high country.

Tioga Pass Still Closed.

I just checked and due to recent storm activity Tioga Pass is still closed though it was slated to open yesterday or today if conditions should allow.

It’s a beautiful day today so hopefully it’ll melt away some of the snow and ice so they can get the pass open. Stay tuned. I’ll let you know if anything should change.

[Yosemite Blog]

Stay tuned…
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May 5, 2007 Posted by | Sierra Nevada | Comments Off on More Right Than I Thought?