Mt. Diablo from East Oakland--and back?

Here are a couple of guys who in 1905 hiked from East Oakland to Mt. Diablo, up to the summit of Mt. Diablo, and then back to East Oakland in one day. They estimated their route took them about 60 miles and a total of 16 hours. The trek up the mountain from base to summit took seven and a half hours, which might seem long to us these days, but back then the trails were probably way more iffy.

No doubt, they really had a long hike.

Gilbert Thomas, of course, was one of the Thomas Brothers who created the Thomas Brothers maps. (See my genealogy blog for more on the Thomas Brothers).

Source: The Oakland Tribune 19 June 1905
Ancestry.com. Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006, accessed 8 February 2016.
Original data: Oakland Tribune. Oakland, CA, USA. Database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper.
Mt. Diablo image from parks.ca.gov