Bay Area Backpages - Visit my pages, once featured on TV, on travel and outdoor activities in the Bay Area. It has pages on parks, hiking, camping, biking, beaches, swimming, museums, playgrounds, views, and information about places in the Bay Area and other parts of California. There's also a technical section on scanners.

My Bay Trail Pages - The Bay Trail, when completed, will be a 400-mile trail along the shores of San Francisco Bay. Here are pictures and descriptions of the southern Bay Trail segments from just north of SFO to Oakland Airport, many of which I did for the official Bay Trail Website.

• Ravenswood (Bay Trail)
• Port of Redwood City Bay Trail
• Guadalupe River Park and Gardens
• Guadalupe River Trail: 101 to Alviso
• Lake Chabot Trails and Facilities
• Los Alamitos Creek, Calero Creek, Guadalupe Creek & River Trail
• Penitencia Creek Trail
• Coyote Ridge Wildflower Walk 4/13/08
  
• Visit to the Doan Ranch 11/22/08
  
• The Ghosts of Lexington (Lexington County Park) 12/7/08
  
• Stanford Neighborhood and Trails
• Stevens Creek Trail (Bay Trail Update, 2009)
  
• Shoreline Park (Bay Trail Update, 2009)
• Palo Alto Baylands (Bay Trail Update, 2009)

• New Views - Rainbows and Waterfalls, 2000
• Santa Teresa Park Slide Show 2001
• Wildflowers, 2002
• Santa Teresa Park background wallpaper for your PC.
• Santa Teresa Park Coyote Peak Views, Feb. 2003
• Bernal Ranch, Bernal Hill Wildflowers, Feb-April '08
  
• Mine, Fortini, Stile Ranch Trail Wildflowers, 4/11/08
• Coyote Peak, Rocky Ridge Wildflowers, Feb.-April 2008

• Ohlone/Nature Trail Work Day 4/20/02
• Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch Dedication, 6/29/02
• The Pyzak Ranch and Santa Teresa Park
• Tour of Rancho Santa Teresa 3/8/03
• Ohlone Trail Work Day, 4/26/03
• Rocky Ridge Trail Work Day, 4/10/04
• Stile Ranch Trail Work Day, 1/8-9/05
• Mountain Bike Race at Santa Teresa, 10/16/05
• Founders' Day Fandango, 11/18/06
• Santa Teresa Park Neighborhood Pig Problems
• The Norred Ranch Site and Surrounding Areas
• Pictures from Ranch Spirit Day, 8/25/07.
• Fortini Trail Work Day, 5/3/08
• Mother's Day Walk, 5/4/08, Fortini, Stile Ranch Trails
• Pictures of the Stile Ranch Trail, 6/3/08
• Pictures of the Ohlone and Hidden Springs Trails, June 5, 2008
• Ohlone Trail from the Archery Range to the Service Road, 6/6/08
• National Trail Day, Santa Teresa Park, 6/7/08
• Family Fandango Day, August 23, 2008
• Ghost Tour of Santa Teresa and Almaden Quicksilver 10/25/08

Geocaching

• Geocaching in Santa Teresa Park - Geocaching is a hobby and recreational activity that has been growing in popularity. It involves using GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers to locate hidden "caches" whose GPS coordinates are published on the Internet. Santa Teresa Park is a popular place for geocaching.
• Geocaching class, Almaden Quicksilver, Wood Road Trail, 6/14/08

• Almaden Quicksilver Wildflowers, Spring 2008

• Almaden Quicksilver County Park - Van Tour 11-17-01
• Wood Road Trail Dedication
• New Almaden Book Signing by Art Boudreault and Mike Boulland, 7/12/06
• Pioneer Day in Spanishtown, 10/14/06.
• Los Alamitos Creek Watershed Cleanup 5/19/07
• New Almaden Day, September 8, 2007
• Pioneer Day, October 13, 2007
• New Almaden Day, September 13, 2008
• Pioneer Day, Wood Road 10/11/08

• Pioneer Day, Senador Mine Trail dedication, 10/11/03 (19.5 MB)
• Pioneer Day, Casa Grande 150th anniversary and Blacksmith Shop Dedication, 10/9/04 (34 MB)
• California Trail Day, north New Almaden Trail, 4/23/05 (14 MB)
• Wildflower Scavenger Hunt, Senador Mine Trail, 5/5/05 (21 MB)
• Volunteers Recognition Banquet, 4/6/06 (31 MB)
• Wildflower walk, Wood Road Trail, 4/30/06 (31 MB)
• GPS Class, Wood Road Trail to Mine Hill, 4/30/06 (31 MB)

• VOCAL Coyote Lake Trail Day, May 5, 2007
• Redwood City Bay Trail

• Powerpoint presentation on County Park Activities (18 MB)
• Santa Teresa Community Fair 9/22/01
• Slideshow of Festival in the Park at Hellyer, 6/24/07 (10 MB)
• Fantasy of Lights, Vasona County Park
• Bay Area Ridge Trail Dedication, Penitencia Creek Park 10/25/08
• Festival in the Park, Hellyer County Park, June 22, 2008

• Outdoor Photography and Internet Publishing - Text from presentation foils for a class I gave on this subject.
  
• Bay Area Outdoor Photography Gallery - Examples of some of my outdoor photographs, taken around the Bay Area.
• Outdoor Photography Class Powerpoint presentation (4/2007, 21 MB).
• HDR Experiments Part 1, Part 2, demonstration of High Dynamic Range photography.
  

Colleges

• UCSB Summer - Pictures of my alma mater, UCSB, and of the beaches, parks, trails, and sights in the Santa Barbara area near the campus, taken in summer 2000.
  
• California College Tours - information, rankings, pictures, advice, and links on Calfornia 4-year colleges and planning college tours.
• Pictures of Stanford University.
  

Other Park Pages

• Spring Lake Regional Park, Santa Rosa - (May 2001) Guide to Spring Lake Regional Park in Santa Rosa and parks and attractions in Santa Rosa and Sonoma and Napa Counties.
• Edgewood County Park - Spring 2001 pictures of the trails and wildflowers at Edgewood County Park in Redwood City, one of the best places in the Bay Area for wildflower viewing.
• Portola State Park and Vicinity - Pictures and information about beautiful redwood-shaded Portola State Park and nearby parks in the Santa Cruz Mountains.,
• Bay Area Parks - Another Geocities Website of mine hosting the following Web pages:
  
• Arastradero Preserve - Pages on the 600-acre preserve in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains above Palo Alto.
  
• Coyote Creek Trail -  Webpages with detailed descriptions of the Coyote Creek Trail and new developments.

Ron Horii's Bay Area and Travel FAQS - (June 2001) Indexed archive of my replies to the Bay Area Backroads Message Board, with information on parks, travel, outdoor recreation, etc. and lots of links.

The Santa Teresa Hills and the Coyote Alamitos-Canal - Pictures and descriptions of the Santa Teresa Hills in South San Jose and the Coyote Alamitos-Canal which runs below them.

My Work Used By Others

I often get requests to use pictures or information from my websites. Here are some examples. If you'd like to use something from my websites, send me a note.

• Pictures for Bay Area Action's (now Acterra) poster on Matadero Creek and pamphlet on invasive weed management, 2001
  
• Pictures for the San Mateo County Convention & Visitors Bureau website, 10/01
  
• Bay Trail Gap Analysis Plan, cover picture, 9/05
• Picture of Coyote Hills used for display in ABAG's auditiorium, 3/06
  
• Pictures for NOAA Coastal Ocean Program manual for Science-based Restoration Monitoring of coastal habitats, 7/04
  
• Photo for the book Environment, The Science Behind the
  Stories by Scott Brennan, 12/03
  
• Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, picture for poster, 7/07
  
• Bay Nature Magazine
• Santa Teresa County Park, Apr-June 2007 (picture)
  
• Article on Mt. Madonna, Jul-Sept. 2007 (2 pictures)
• Jan-March 2009, picture of the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, pictures at Coyote Ridge (1 in print version only)
  
• Bay Area Parent (interview for article on accessible hiking, 5/08)
  
• Almaden Times Weekly
  
• Snake in the Grass, 8/2/07 (picture and interview)
• New Almaden Day 9/14/07 (cover picture, last picture)
  
• Pioneer Day 10/18/07 (pictures)
  
• Article on San Jose Parks plans, 10/25/07 (pictures)
• Martial Cottle Ranch planning 11/1/07 (picture)
• Santa Clara County Parks offer Healthy Trails 11/23/07
  
• Education and the Environment Initiative public school curriculum, picture for 5th grade science unit on "Earth's Water", 3/08
• Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), picture used for FOCUS program letterhead, 12/07
• Pictures of the Guadalupe River Park and Gardens for a book on Hargreaves Associates by a professor at the Univ. of Penn, 2008
  
• San Jose Mercury News article on Almaden Quicksilver Park (interview, 3/30/08)
• Bay Area Ridge Trail (pictures on website)
• Santa Clara County Parks Activities Guide (pictures, 2008-9)
  
• City of Palo Alto Baylands Master Plan (pictures, 2008)
  
• The Media Center: for intro pictures to a monthly community access TV program on Palo Alto's Community Environmental Action Partnership (CEAP), 12/08
• Numerous requests from students to use my pictures in their school projects
  

Other pages I've worked with:

San Francisco Bay Trail - The official ABAG pages on the 400-mile proposed and partially-completed trail network around San Francisco Bay.

Bay Area Backroads - Web page for KRON's great travel program for SF and California.