A walk with Karen

Karen wanted to walk somewhere, so we drove to Callippe in Pleasanton, parked at the club-house, and hiked out to get Callippe’s Under Side. I found it fairly quickly (2:12 PM). We saw several deer (actually quite curious) and flushed a golden eagle that must have been lunching on a squirrel just down the hillside […]

Hemme trailhead—Danville

Dan and I made a nice hike today into Las Trampas from the Hemme Avenue trailhead and came up with 11 finds.

Cams or Cogs was named for the old gearbox or pump assembly abandoned between the creek and the trail. We had to search a long time, even though our area of search was […]

Fremont and Alviso

This afternoon Dan, Janet, and I made a run down to the Fremont, Milpitas, Alviso area. Had a lot of fun.

We started with Fremont Falls which is surprisingly close to 680 and Washington Blvd. We knew from the logs the coords were a bit off, and we found it right away at 1:19 PM. […]