Hiking Adventures in the San Francisco Peninsula and Beyond
I have been thinking about process. One friend, an entrepreneur, posted recently about the creative process involved in building a new company and/or product. Another, a former colleague, posted about the process to get effective input from subject matter experts (SMEs), where including the full agreement, rather than a snippet, in the note to the … Continue reading What’s Your Process?
It's that time of the year again, for New Year's resolutions. I called my 2023 resolution "50 for 50." I turned 50 this year and was determined to complete 50 hikes. I stopped counting after 30 and will probably end up with around 40. Not bad. This was one of my favorites, the "Tower Hike" in Cologne. My 2024 … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions
It seems that a trail always finds me (or perhaps that I always find a trail). This one was flat, flat, flat, unlike our last one, Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve (https://johnpavolotsky.com/2023/09/10/purisima-septiembre-2023/). Consider this Anchorage's version of the San Francisco Bay Trail (https://johnpavolotsky.com/2023/01/02/the-san-francisco-bay-trail/), but with Chugatch State Park to the east, Cook Inlet, and … Continue reading Hiking Anchorage
If there is a more efficient hike, I have yet to find it. Here's the map: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/whittemore-gulch-and-harkins-ridge-loop-trail 7.6 miles per All Trails (7.3, per my phone), 1800+ feet elevation change, 3 hours, down and up, fog, blue skies, ridges, second growth redwoods, creeks, a lonely banana slug, 8 intrepid hikers, lively conversation, on topics ranging … Continue reading Purisima Creek Redwoods OSP – October PHG Hike
It does not rain in the San Francisco Bay Area in September. I have lived here for nearly 43 years and can attest to this fact of nature. Sprinkle, maybe. Rain, definitely not. Thus, when my weather app forecasted 60% chance of rain at 8am this morning, I thought little of it. At 9am, it … Continue reading Pulgas Ridge OSP – September PHG Hike
The Perfect Hike
Spring Blooms It’s Spring. The sun is shining. It’s getting warmer. Birds are chirping. Time for digital Spring cleaning. After amassing more than ten thousand unread emails in my personal email box (yes, I probably need a better SPAM filter), there was only one sensible solution: delete all unread emails that were more than a few weeks old. If it … Continue reading Digital Spring Cleaning
Liminal Coffee Roasters Happy Saturday. Lots to talk about. Inflation is real, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area. $6.99 for both a pound of peaches at my local (higher end) supermarket and a gallon of gas. Tough one. De minimis elasticity on the price of gas; some stations charge closer to $6.00, but steep … Continue reading Saturday Musings 05.14.22
International Food Fair - 5.5.22 Strange week, not only due to the release of Dr. Strange II, which, according to credible sources, was, well, strange. As an MCU fan, I am compelled to see it, at some point. Apparently, according to the same sources, there was a Dr. Strange in the theater audience. Cosplay, alive … Continue reading Saturday Musings 5.7.22
The latest addition It might be time for a regular column/post. I found inspiration from a speaker (Dave Barry) at the Fox Speaker Series (Redwood City, California). Once a week, on Saturdays, reflecting on the previous week and perhaps looking ahead to the upcoming one. As an experiment, I will commit to this for the … Continue reading Saturday Musings 4.30.22
The Peninsula Hiking Club 