Best one-day hikes to mountaintops (2 Stienstra videos)

Video copyright 2013 CBS/CW, used by permission by CBS, Tom Spitz, director of program operations for KBCW/KPIX/KSTW; filmed by Barbary Coast Productions. Some are trips are easy. A few are short but steep, others rhythmic but long. But none of California’s best one-day hikes to mountaintops are in the category, “Kill me, eat me.” You get top-of-the-world views without having to pay the severe physical price that is often associated with summit climbs. That is why you won’t find this list filled with the likes of Mount Shasta, Mount Whitney and all the Sierra 14ers, plus Mount Dana above Tioga Pass, Half Dome, and Tahoe’s Tinker Knob, Mount Tallac and [...]