A short 15-minute ride out of town gains you some significant elevation and mountainside trails to explore.
A 45-year-old hiker died Saturday after falling about 1,500 feet down a mountainside from a trail near Mt. Baldy, authorities said.
During the weekend, at least two others were injured after sliding several hundred feet down the mountainside from nearby trails.
Then another high waterfall, a slender hypnotic stream hurtling down the 100-foot mountainside, as the Cascade trail wound through beautiful native forest.
They would go up against the very best, running along serpentine paths through steep mountainsides at the Xterra trail run world championship.
The Zheng family village, Sanceng, is nestled into a mountainside, accessible by a dirt trail that climbs through terraced rice paddies.
The line of parked cars, tents, campervans and every kind of human life lined four deep could be seen from miles away, winding up the mountainside like a giant snail trail.
While legislators continued to wrangle over what to cut and where to tax, a corps crew under a canopy of oak and fir trees on Mount Tamalpais hauled rock, rolled wheelbarrows brimming with dirt and hacked at stumps, carving a wheelchair-accessible trail in the mountainside.
Mr Kim knew the commander here, and we were accompanied by a military escort of a half dozen soldiers up a winding jungle trail to the mountainside temple grounds.
Today, for scenic views, hop over the metal barricade at the main viewpoint for the valley above the parking lot: an overgrown hiking trail slithers around the mountainside, offering ever-more spectacular views of the Iao Needle.
By now, it was 10 a.m., the temperature was nearing 100 degrees, and the trail led up a mountainside.
