by Anny Peng | Feb 23, 2023
First, I would like to thank my dear friend Jian for encouraging me to share my hiking experiences. I hope this will motivate more people to get out of the house to enjoy the trails in nature and improve their quality of life. In 2020, I moved from Shanghai, China to...
by Jian He | Jan 23, 2023
Our weekly hiking group could not meet regularly since the rain kept coming down. Indoor activities like playing Ping-Pong, running on machines, or doing yoga still helped us keep exercising, but we missed the fresh air in the woods, wild animals in the fields, and...
by Jian He | Oct 27, 2022
Have you ever hiked around Stanford Dish? The Dish is a 46-meter-diameter radio telescope built in 1961 in the Stanford foothills. It’s such a large piece of equipment that we could see it 10 miles away on the top of the Stephen E. Abbors Trail in Rancho San Antonio...
by Jian He | Sep 22, 2022
Ever since I started volunteering for my sons’ schools, I have made so many friends who love to hike together and enjoy nature. We formed a weekly hiking group and mostly hike around the Rancho San Antonio Preserve in Cupertino. In spring this year, several friends...
by Joel Wolf | Apr 8, 2022
The Don Burnett (Mary Avenue) Bike Pedestrian Bridge has been open for over 10 years. I estimate that since opening, I have crossed this 500-foot span cable-stayed steel bridge on my bicycle well over 3000 times, mainly on my daily commute to work in Menlo Park, but...
