The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, also officially the "John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge," opened in 1956, displacing the last car ferry across San Francisco Bay. Recently, a lane on the upper…
On a beautiful spring Sunday with glorious clouds and shifting light I took my four kids for a hike in Tilden Park. We parked a car near Lake Anza (Phyllis…
Fog on the Headlands, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a brilliant, sunny autumn afternoon Mark and I left the Tennessee Valley parking lot. Past the horse…
[Note: this is a reposting of a story originally published in July 2005.] © Harold Davis - Thousand Islands Lake, Ansel Adams Wilderness, July 2, 2005 About a week ago…
Alamere Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Alamere Falls tumbles down a cliff to the Pacific Ocean in Point Reyes National Seashore. This awesome waterfall lies north…
The Wave #1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photograph taken at the Wave, a beautiful geologic wonder of the world. Chambers, striations, passages: it's…
Falling into the Virgin, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I wandered and slogged up the Virgin River towards the narrows. Boots and jeans soaked, walking up the…
Half Dome Ladder, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Back down from Glacier Point in the early predawn hours, I caught a few hours sleep and then started…
Peeking Bridge, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. OK, so this is the Golden Gate Bridge peeking, not a Peking Duck. A cheap shot, I know, but I…
Nicky on the Inspiration Point Trail, photo by Harold Davis. It's great that my kids love hiking. Nicky, shown above, is at the start of the Inspiration Point trail in…
Generations, photo by Harold Davis. Three generations went hiking together over Labor Day weekend. Shown on the Estoro Trail on Point Reyes from left to right: Harold (me!), Julian (my…
Campfire in the Wilderness, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. If you climb the ridge to the west of the High Sierra camp at Glen Aulin, there's a…
Vernal Falls Morning Light, photo by Harold Davis. I spent the first couple of nights of my road trip in Yosemite Valley. I stayed at Curry Village for $29.00 per…
Half Dome View at Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. Julian, my eight year old, and I went on a camping trip for most of this last week. We started in…
Wild Flowers near Thousand Islands Lake, photo by Harold Davis. In the stillness of the early morning at the beginning of July of this year I stood by my campsite…
Golden Hills, photo by Harold Davis. There's an amazing wilderness less than a mile from me consisting of Tilden Park, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, some other East Bay parks, and…
© Harold Davis - Rush Creek crossing, early morning, July 3, 2005 This is the third (and final) installment of a story about my recent short -- but particularly poorly…
© Harold Davis - Looking towards the Minarets from Summit Ridge, July 1, 2005 In the first part of this story, I told how an excess of enthusiasm for wilderness…