outdoors

Like to get your hands dirty? This Saturday, from 9-12 you will have your chance. Find out how to join the volunteer crew that maintains the Marin Headlands Nursery for the Golden Gate Parks Conservancy at Fort Cronkhite.

Near the top of the list of dreamy, bosky local rambles is the 2.5 mile loop around Bon Tempe reservoir on the northwestern slope of Mt.Tamalpais. It is encircled by a deep, cool forest of fir, madrones, redwoods with dense patches of ferns and irises. The lake itself is home to swooping families of mallards, […]

Just motoring and perambulating around the shores of the Bay you can catch sight of awkwardly elegant herons but if you’re curious about their lives and behaviors, meet up at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park this Saturday May 13 and 20 for a much better informed Heron Watch. These are the blue, not the […]

You missed the deadline for competing in the 2017 Bay Area Senior Games but there’s non-stop spectating to enjoy at this celebration of geriatric jocks over the next month. From May 7- 20 there will be 15 sports events with 1700 over-50 athletes taking place across the Peninsula. Everything from sports and field to archery, […]

Even with no standup comedians and no punch lines expect plenty of guffawing at the Laughter Yoga event this Sunday from 1-3 in a park next to Embarcadero 4. The hilarity apparently will be triggered by yogic breathing and I’m guessing the spirit will be contagious. It’s part of a global movement of 8,000 laughter […]

For anyone interested in time travel, you might want to venture to Howard and 2nd Streets this Sunday. From noon to 8 the 18th annual How Weird Street Fair will fill 11 stages with electronic music in another of many efforts around town to relive the 1967 Summer of Love with light shows fashion shows, […]

Let’s imagine the rain stops, the sun reappears and you are ready to finally start summer. It’s hard to think of a more perfect spot than the Inkwells, a series of small, deep, dark, swimmable pools cascading into each other amid redwood groves in West Marin. Head out Sir Francis Drake Boulevard to Lagunitas. Just before […]

Battling for its place as the top event hitting the Bay Area this dance crazed weekend is Turfin’ vs.the World. From 12 to 6 in Jack London Square the best Oakland street dancers will be pumping up their popping, locking, story telling and miming in acrobatic combat, some on which include audience participation. Think I’ll […]