Contents:

 Santa Teresa County Park

 Friends of Santa Teresa Park

 Geocaching

 Almaden Quicksilver County Park

 New Almaden Quicksilver County
Park Association

 Self-Running Slideshows

 Online Slideshows

 Events in Other Parks

 Outdoor Photography

 Colleges

Facebook Photo Albums

 Other Park and Trail Pages

 My Work Used By Others

Notes on migrated Geocities, Prodigy Pages (Bay Area Back Pages)

Bay Area Back Pages

Disclaimer
San Francisco Bay Area
Parks, Recreation, and Travel
by Ron Horii 

Ron in Santa Teresa County Park, pointing to the Santa Teresa Hills, picture by Mike Boulland 4/4/09

Welcome! My favorite hobbies and activities are photography, hiking, biking, computers, geocaching, travel, and travel writing. I've created a number of Web pages on travel and recreation in the San Francisco Bay Area and California. Here you will find links to pages with photos and information on parks, beaches, trails, history, and places to visit.

Note that this is entirely a volunteer effort, with no commercial intent or sponsorship. I am not a professional photographer or webpage designer. Among other activities, I am a volunteer photographer for the Santa Clara County Parks & Recreation  Department and a member of several volunteer organizations.

News: I am teaching an outdoor photography class at Coyote Lake/Harvey Bear County Park on Saturday May 4, 2013 at 10:00 am. Here are the directions:
Meet at the Mendoza Ranch staging area on Roop Road, 1/2 mile west of the Coyote Lake entrance. Join Docent Ron Horii for a 3.7-mile photography hike of the spectacular Mummy Mountain Trail in Coyote Lake/Harvey Bear Ranch County Park. Learn outdoor photography techniques and take pictures of the wildflowers, sunny meadows, shady forests, unusual rock formations, and breathtaking views from the trail. Take Leavesley Road in Gilroy east from 101, turn left on New Avenue, then right on Roop Road. Bring a camera, sturdy hiking shoes, water, and sun protection. Register online, or call (408) 355-2240.
Santa Teresa County Park


Coyote Peak, Santa Teresa County Park

(Migrated from geocities.com/santateresapark.) Web pages on my favorite park in San Jose. The park covers nearly 1700 acres in the rolling, grass-covered hills guarding the southern gateway to the Silicon Valley. Santa Teresa Park webpages:

Friends of Santa Teresa Park


FOSTP president Mike Boulland leading a hike on the Stile Ranch Trail in Santa Teresa Park, 5/4/08

(Migrated from geocities.com/stpfriends.) The Friends of Santa Teresa Park (FOSTP) is the volunteer organization supporting Santa Teresa County Park. I am the secretary and webmaster for the organization. Find out what's going on in the park and what you can do to help make it better. This site is updated frequently with park and community news, developments, pictures, and volunteer activities. Here are Santa Teresa Park volunteer events and community issues:


Geocaching


Geocaching class in Mt. Madonna County Park, 7/11/09


Almaden Quicksilver County Park


Mine Hill Rotary Furnace, Almaden Quicksilver County Park

(Migrated from geocities.com/almadenqs.) Website on one of the Bay Area's crown jewels. This park, in the backyard of the Silicon Valley, covers almost 4000 acres, with hiking trails through rugged, wildflower-covered  hills filled with historical quicksilver mining relics.

New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association

NAQCPA president Kitty Monahan at the dedication of the English Camp Map House, 10/10/09

The New Almaden Quicksilver County Park Association (NAQCPA) is the volunteer organization supporting Almaden Quicksilver County Park. I am one of the webmasters for the organization. See this site for pictures, events, and volunteer opportunities at the park. Park events:

Self-Running Slideshows (Windows only)
 
Instructions for slideshows: move mouse around the bottom of the page to see the controls to pause/play and step back/forward. Slideshow will loop. To stop, right-click, choose Exit option.

Online Slideshows

(Wait for pages to finish loading, enable Javascript if asked, scroll to bottom, hit play button to start, stop button to stop, click on links to exit):

Outdoor Photography


Ron teaching a photo class at the Bernal Ranch, Santa Teresa Park, 4/4/09, picture by Sam Drake

I've been been teaching classes on outdoor photography at Santa Teresa Park for several years. These are web pages associated with the class:


Colleges


UCSB

  • 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 and Trail Pages


Byxbee Park, Palo Alto Baylands


Facebook Pictures and Photo Albums

I have contributed pictures and notes to the Facebook pages of these organizations:


My Work Used By Others


Bay Trail in Shoreline Park in Mountain View, used in Bay Nature Magazine, April-June 2009

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.

Note on Geocities migration: This is my new domain. Yahoo shut down its Geocities.com domain in October 2009. Many of my web pages, including this one, were on Geocities. If you have been automatically routed to this page, it's because all of my pages on geocities.com/rhorii will be routed here to this home page. Also, my web pages on geocities,com/santateresapark, bayareaparks, almadenqs, santateresahills, stpfriends, and some others will be dead, but I'm going to re-create them here eventually or migrate them to other sites. It will take a lot of time to rebuild the pages and reset the links. While the links below work, the links on the pages that they are linked to will need updating. Please be patient. Here are my old Geocities websites and their new locations:

www.geocities.com/rhorii moved to www.rhorii.com (here)
www.geocities.com/bayareaparks to www.rhorii.com/bayareaparks
www.geocities.com/santateresahills to www.rhorii.com/SantaTeresaHills
www.geocities.com/santateresapark to www.stpfriends.org/Santateresapark
www.geocities.com/stpfriends to www.stpfriends.org
www.geocities.com/almadenqs to www.newalmaden.org/AQSPark
www.geocities.com/gardenahs71 not yet migrated
www.geocities.com/lhstptsa not migrated
www.geocities.com/lhsgradnite not migrated

Notes on Prodigy Personal Web Pages, Bay Area Back Pages:

This is what I used to have:
Bay Area Backpages - Visit my first webpages on Prodigy, started in 1997, 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. Prior to these webpages, I was a frequent contributor to Prodigy and other travel bulletin boards, and I found I was frequently answering the same questions over and over again. These pages gave me a means of having the information available permanently. Because of space limitations, I have not been able to expand these pages, so some have been supplanted with pages on this site.

On June 1, 2011, AT&T terminated the Prodigy Personal Web Pages without warning (to me, at least). All my Bay Area Back Pages at http://pages.prodigy.net/rhorii are now dead. I'm going to gradually revive them here, but it will take time. Many of those pages are very old and are in need of upgrading. In the meantime, you can still find the home page on this archive.


Bay Area Back Pages

I attempted to re-create Bay Area Back Pages on this website, but not everything is working yet. Here are the major pages for my migrated Bay Area Back Pages. Note that many of these pages date from the 1990's, so they are not up-to-date. The links are most likely stale. Some things never change, so much of the fundamental information is still valid. Just don't expect the links to work.
Disclaimer:
The information in these web pages was accurate to the best of my knowledge at the time the pages were written, but is not guaranteed to be accurate or current. Factors such accessibility, conditions, rules, ownership, directions, etc., can change without notice. Readers are responsible for finding out the latest conditions before venturing out. The information on these pages should not be treated as official, but as private opinions and observations. These pages are non-commercial and not officially associated with any company or agency.

Note on Dead Links:
Links go dead faster than I can fix them. The older the web page, the more likely the links will be dead. All of these web pages are volunteer efforts, done in my spare time. I don't have time to constantly go back to check and refresh links on old web pages. However, if you are looking for some specific information, send me an e-mail, and I can see what I can do to answer your questions.

Note on Link Exchanges:
Sorry. I don't have time, so please don't ask. I do not accept commercial link exchanges.

Updated 6/17/13 by Ron Horii. E-mail me!