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Near and Dear

Tom Stienstra's list of the top 20 Bay Area peaks and ridge-tops:

Marin

Mount Wittenberg, Point Reyes National Seashore

Barnabe Peak, Samuel P. Taylor State Park: May 14, 2006

East Peak, Mount Tamalpais State Park

Mount Livermore, Angel Island State Park

Peninsula

San Bruno Mountain (state and county park): April 23, 2004

Montara Mountain, San Pedro Valley County Park

Borel Hill, Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve.

East Bay

Franklin Ridge, Carquinez Regional Shoreline: BAHiker, EBParks

San Pablo Ridge, Tilden Regional Park: BAHiker, EBParks

Rocky Ridge, Las Trampas Regional Wilderness: BAHiker, EBParks

Mount Diablo (state park)

Bob Walker Ridge, Morgan Territory

Mission Peak (regional preserve)

Rocky Ridge, Ohlone Regional Wilderness

Rose Peak, Ohlone Regional Wilderness

Flag Rock, Sunol Regional Wilderness.

South Bay

Monument Peak, Ed Levin County Park

Summit Rock, Sanborn-Skyline County Park

Bald Mountain (open space preserve)

Bay Ridge Trail, Harvey Bear County Park.

Presidio

6th Avenue

Fort Funston Beach

December 30, 2008. 

Epic. Fearless. Totally F*cking Nuts.

Bay Area speed freaks, represent!

This defines crazy.  I have an adrenaline rush just from watching it.  If you're not feeling it when one of them screams "WHOOOOOO!  DIG IT!!  DIG IT!!!" at 6:59, you need a heart transplant.

Thanks to SFist.  Check out the topo map of the route.

Golden Gate Bridge, Up Close

Golden Gate Bridge, Up Close,
originally uploaded by edbatista.

Another Flickr upload (see the previous post).

Worked well again, although it doesn't appear that I can categorize photos when posting from within Flickr--I had to log in to TypePad again.  Ah, well.  One nice thing is that posting to a blog apparently doesn't count toward the 10 MB monthly bandwidth allowance that comes with my free Flickr account.  The worst thing about it is that it's sort of a pain to type f-l-i-c-k-r.  Sort of sad when you consider what someone's doing with f-l-i-c-k-e-r.com.  Very '98.

United States of Apple

United States of Apple,
originally uploaded by edbatista.

I'm trying out Flickr, a photo-sharing service that's getting increasingly popular. Plenty of not-really-useful features (captions and that sort of thing), but what I'm really interested in is the ability to tag photos, search for and identify photos using tags (yours and others'), and create an community that makes it easy to share images with others.

What's also interesting about Flickr is the integration with your blogging application.  This photo and the paragraph above were posted directly from within Flickr--I had to configure my Flickr account so that it could access my TypePad account, but I didn't have to use TypePad at all.  (If I were slicker with HTML/CSS, I could do a lot more with the photo and text format, but I'll leave that for another day.)  Another upside is that the photo's hosted at Flickr, so it doesn't count against my TypePad storage limit.  (With a free Flickr account, you can upload a total of 10 MB a month, and you have unlimited storage capacity.)  A downside is that I don't think I can select a category for the blog entry--I had to categorize this entry while writing this paragraph from within TypePad, but there may be a workaround.