Audible Mount Diablo

If you are safe from the fires and curious to learn about another force that has shaped the Bay Area landscape, take a virtual walk on the TRAIL THROUGH TIME. It's a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by...

SENTINEL ROCK   Mount Diablo's Half Dome? Geologically, it's not as silly as it sounds.  Take a virtual walk on the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by Phil Heywood. Produced by Jo...

SNAIL STORIES   Need proof that the Bay Area was once under water? Have a look at marine turritellas preserved in rocks on Mount Diablo. It's episode 14 of the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Ba...

SANDSTONE FROM THE SIERRA   Mighty rivers washed granitic rock from the Sierra Nevada westward into deep basins. You can see the evidence in the caves and castles at Mount Diablo's Rock City. The TRAIL THROUGH TIME  series features naturalist Ken Lavin and is sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya...

Leap to the TERTIARY on the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by Phil Heywood. Produced by Joan Hamilton.

Explore the rippling landscape of the Bay Area's GREAT VALLEY SEQUENCE on the Trail Through Time, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by Phil Heywood. Produced by Joan Hamilton.

What Made the Mountain?  Learn about the forces that pushed Mount Diablo skyward in the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by Phil Heywood. Produced by Joan Hamilton.

Need a good, rocky hike right now?   Learn about schist and greenstone on the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by Phil Heywood. Produced by Joan Hamilton.

Meet radiolarian chert, a distinctive Franciscan rock made from "the long snowfall of the sea." It's episode eight of the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by Phil Heywood. Produced...

GEO-QUIZ Do you know the name of the rock that forms the peaks of Telegraph Hill, Mount Tamalpais, Mount San Bruno, and Mount Diablo? It's episode seven of the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Ba...

Meet the rocky-road ice cream of California rock formations: FRANCISCAN MELANGE. It's episode six of the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara. Music by Phil Heywood. Produced by Joan Hamilton...

SENTINEL ROCK is Mount Diablo's answer to Half Dome in Yosemite. You may laugh, but geologically it is not as silly as it sounds. Take a virtual walk on the TRAIL THROUGH TIME, a series of geology videos featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Sponsored by the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Videography by Macha Rose. Animations by Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barba...

THE DIABLO TRAIL  Winding through six parks from Walnut Creek to Brentwood, the 32-mile long Diablo Trail leads deep into the East Bay's spectacular network of protected lands.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Music Phil Heywood and Steve Arn...

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE    Take in the sweeping vistas of Highland Ridge on a 6-mile virtual walk through one of the East Bay's wildest parks. Keep an eye out for golden eagles! Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Music Phil Heywood and Steve Arnol...

7 ROGER EPPERSON  If you're a connoisseur of spectacular Bay Area backcountry, you should know Roger Epperson Ridge—as well as the story of the Renaissance man behind the name.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Music Phil Heywood and Steve Arn...

BOB WALKER'S FAVORITE HIKE  A six-mile loop on the preserve's eastern side takes in a wide array of wonders, including frogs, ferns, falcons, and fairy lanterns. Have a look while you're sheltering in place! Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Mu...

While looking for a place to walk his dog, BOB WALKER  fell in love with Morgan Territory. Ten years later, he was an award-winning photographer and conservation hero.  Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Music Phil Heywood and Steve Arnold. Narr...

THE PARK IDEA    A man with only five years to live saw the future clearly enough to buy the first parkland here for $400 an acre. Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Music Phil Heywood and Steve Arnold. Narration and Production Joan Hamilton. 

FIRST PEOPLE    Just a few hundred years ago, the Volvon people lived along the headwaters of Marsh Creek.   Learn about the plants they used for food and how they took care of the land. Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Music Phil Heywood and...

Save Mount Diablo presents The Morning Side of the Mountain: a guide to Morgan Territory Regional Preserve. This 9-part series celebrates the history of one of the wildest parks in the San Francisco Bay Area and showcases the plants, animals and sights you can see on some of its most rewarding walks. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including p...

Glorious Morgan Territory—and some of the people who have cared for it. 

HOW THE PARK GREW  In the early 1980s, public funding for East Bay parks was dwindling—until Bay Area taxpayers came to the rescue. Presented by Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Seth Adams, Carol Alderdice, Kevin Dixon, Robert Doyle, and Manfred Lindner. Including photos by Scott Hein and Bob Walker. Videography Nick Jones. Music Phil Heywood and Steve Arnold. Narration and Production Joan Hamilton. 

Soon they'll be popping up— the stunning red flowers that get part of their nourishment from chaparral shrubs. So what's their story?  "Falls Trail" is a 13-part series featuring Ken Lavin, Burt Bogardus, Paul Cardinet, and Jenn Roe. Presented by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo.

The last stop in our Twin Peaks loop takes us across a lush meadow to Coulter Pond. 

Reap the rewards of climbing this lesser-known peak in Mount Diablo State Park.  Stop 5 of a hiking guide to Twin Peaks, presented by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo.