This is a blog for people of all levels and experience and is not limited to any state, province or sport.
An outdoorsman and Nurse Practitioner living in Northern California. When I first started this blog, I was an EMT living in Southern California and this blog has followed...
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Of all the parks I’ve hiked and run through in a near-decade of living in the Bay Area, Alum Rock Park is towards the top of the list. I love this place. On paper, its just a municipal park on the East Side of San Jose. But its a surprisingly lush park with varied terrain...
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I’m going off-script from my fanatical peakbagging in covering Bair Island Ecological Reserve. It’s fairly flat, urbanized and not exactly a destination for hiking. But good events in life have naturally contracted my world to a much smaller one. While I’ll eventually return to mountain climbing, I must find contentment in the mor...
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I cover a lot of obscure mountains and hikes on this website. Often I hike a mountain because it lands on an equally unknown peakbagging list, such as the Bay Area Nifty Ninety Peaks. Peakbagging is a relentless though highly questionable pursuit of tagging summits in a systematic way. Though heavily ridiculed by “serious climbers”,...
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Burra Burra Peak, Vasquez Peak and Rock Springs Peak form a difficult hike through the exquisite backcountry of Henry Coe State Park.
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Black Point is a prominent summit in Mt Diablo State Park. Its a half day hike through a splendidly unspoiled part of the park.
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Adventure is out there! The Pursuit of Life is an outdoor adventure blog that’s dedicated towards providing guides on a variety of outdoor activities and wild places in the United States and Canada. This is a blog for people of all levels and experience and is not limited to any state, province or sport. Activities that are covered in this blog include hiking, mountain biking, climbing, kayaking, mountaineering, thru-hiking, caving, trail running, trekking, canoeing, ice climbing and general exploring.
