Community Education
Mushroom walk led by Bill Freedman. (J. Cannon)San Bruno Mountain Watch offers, sponsors, or supports special events, hikes, classes and workshops that in some way or another help people connect with the mountain, or connect with their power to help preserve the mountain. From time to time we have offerings such as:
Ginny Anderson's programs - Intergenerational and Last of the Lineage Hikes,
Special Hikes Sometimes special hikes are scheduled to present more specific information. For example, a mushroom hike or a birding hike are scheduled this winter. The California Native Plant Society, the Audubon Society and other groups also lead hikes on the mountain.
Speaker Series
Writing for Social Change workshops
Upcoming Events:
Oral Traditions Night - An evening of poetry, songs, and storytelling
March 3, 2011. Thursday, 7:30-9:00 PM San Bruno Mountain Watch Office
Bring musical instruments, stories, poems, songs, tall tales, insults, boasts and toasts LEARNED BY HEART! (or cheat and read) No one is required to perform. Please join us even if you don’t care to recite anything. Together let’s make a brief community dedicated to the mountain, and to the love of the spoken word.
Cost: A song, poem, good will, or open heart.
Between the Bay and the Deep Blue Sea -
A Meditation Walk on the Ridge Trail: An extended walk, 4 + hours
Sunday April 3, 2011. 10:00 AM Meeting place to be announced.
No other place in the Bay Area can you walk a lovely trail with San Francisco Bay on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other. Moving slowly on the loose gravel, we begin our walk where the stump of an amazing crone tree welcomes your feet onto the loose stone path. She reminds you to walk slowly, paying attention to your footfall on the path undulating over the mountain’s ridge.
If the day is benign, and it’s appropriate to rest our bodies on the mountain, I’ll introduce you to an Andean practice of Incan shamanism – the ponq’o. It’s an energy cleansing, done in community, coupled here with the wind that moves from the Pacific into the Bay Area. Our destination at trail’s end is a visionary place of power and beauty.
Reservations: Contact Ginny Anderson, at 650-323-4494, or freyjand@comcast.net Meet at the parking lot in San Bruno Mountain County Park.
Cost: suggested donation to San Bruno Mountain Watch
Save the Frogs Day on San Bruno Mountain
April 30, 2011. 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Meeting place to be announced.
April 29 is the world’s largest day of amphibian education and conservation action (see www.savethefrogs.com). . Join us the following day, on Saturday, April 30 to visit several places on the mountain that represent frog habitat. The red-legged frog is one of the endangered species protected on the mountain. This event will give you an opportunity to observe its curious ebbing and flowing habitat, its challenges to survival even here on a mountain dedicated to its survival - and learn about its special gift to regenerate missing limbs.
Cost: Free, Sponsored by San Bruno Mountain Watch
Reserve a place by contacting San Bruno Mountain Watch, sanbruno@mountainwatch.org or call 415-467-6631
Intergenerational Walk on San Bruno Mountain: A Legacy of Pleasure
May 22, 2011. 1:00 PM Meet at the San Bruno Mountain County Park parking lot.
Earlier in May, on Mother’s Day give a gift of a promise to walk on San Bruno. Or as a senior, spring a surprise on grown or still-growing kids! A leisurely walk on flat ground will reveal unexpected secrets of San Bruno Mountain, next to San Francisco Bay, where one of the mountain’s three 5000 year-old shell mounds lies hidden in the folds of wonderful Buckeye Canyon. Ancient ice age plant survivors hug the mountaintop, and endangered butterflies cling to life.
The scope of the Bay Area, of San Francisco, and a view of ocean and bay will give you a new perspective of our Bay Area home at the edge of the continent.
Cost: Free. Sponsored by San Bruno Mountain Watch
Reservations: Contact Ginny Anderson, at 650-323-4494, or freyjand@comcast.net
Invitation: any group who would like to arrange a similar event, contact Ginny, at 650-323-4494 or freyjand@comcast.net
Ginny Anderson is an ecopsychologist and therapist. Her website is www.eco-psychology.com