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Audible Mount Diablo

Audible Mount Diablo is an invitation to adventure. Its free multimedia tours combine lively interviews and music with the rush of wind and the chirps, howls, and growls of wildlife. Naturalists heighten visitors’ appreciation of the sights and sounds at each stop, tell tales of the mountain’s past, and suggest what to look for around the next bend. Photographs pop up to help identify plants and animals. Perfect to prepare for your first--or your hundredth--trip up the mountain. 
 
Sponsored by Save Mount Diablo and the Mount Diablo Interpretive AssociationProduced by Audio Guides to the Outdoors
 
Photo above by Scott Hein

Sep 1, 2022

One of the tallest mountains in the Bay Area—MOUNT DIABLO—is still growing!  Learn how and when the mountain emerged and when the Mount Diablo Thrust Fault is due for a quake. 

Featuring naturalist Ken Lavin. Presented by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Part of the...


Aug 5, 2022

WILD RIDE   Take a 6-minute breeze through Bay Area geologic history, from the Age of Dinosaurs to the Age of Mammals. 

Featuring Ken Lavin. Adapted from Audible Mount Diablo's "Mary Bowerman Geology Tour." Presented by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. 


Jul 22, 2022

Need to cool off? Enjoy a 360-degree vista from the top of Mount Diablo while watching its resident TURKEY VULTURES soar.  The species has some  fascinating (creepy?) habits as well as a superpower revealed almost a century ago by a team of geologists. 

From a A Geology Tour on the Mary Bowerman Trail. Presented by...


Apr 22, 2022

SUMMIT STORIES  Spring is a great time to visit Mount Diablo State Park. If you go to the top, have a look at the rocks used to build the summit visitor center.  You can easily see fossils of oysters and clams—and, in the sand in between, clues to geologic history of the entire Bay Area. 

From a tour of the Mary...


Aug 19, 2021

Geological puzzlements: If rocks usually pile up, layer by layer, over time, why are MOUNT DIABLO's oldest layers on top?

A geological tour of the Mary Bowerman Loop presented by Mount Diablo Interpretive Association in partnership with Save Mount Diablo. Featuring Ken Lavin. Photos by Scott Hein and others. Music by...