High School Students

Explore Mt. Tam trails with others who love the mountain.

Galileo Galilei developed a new method for reliably comprehending the world around us and, accordingly, has been called the father of modern science. We will learn how Galileo‰ЫЄs celestial observations dramatically changed our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

Enjoy a Saturday morning hike, guided by Friends of Mt. Tam volunteers.

Explore Mt. Tam trails with others who love the mountain.

Discoveries by NASA‰ЫЄs Kepler Mission suggest there are billions of potentially habitable worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. What has the study of planets within and beyond the Solar System taught us about our own planet Earth? And what‰ЫЄs next in the search for life beyond the Solar System?

Enjoy a Saturday morning hike, guided by Friends of Mt. Tam volunteers.

Join us as we perform maintenance on this lovely trail and do much needed storm repair and drainage improvements.

Do you ever wish we could look back in time? We can, by studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which reveals the fiery early universe when it was only 0.003% of its present age. This talk will show how studying the CMB allows us to learn about the origin, composition, and ultimate fate of the universe.

Enjoy a Saturday morning hike, guided by Friends of Mt. Tam volunteers.

Connect with your mountain by spending a day improving trails! We will hike two miles to Nora Trail below historic West Point Inn. Our crew will repair a bridge, upgrade water bars, install a trail marker and do some light brushing.