Resources

Maps and chant sheet

Map of the full Circumambulation route

Map of the Middle Circuit route, and list of stations

Chant sheet

Weather

Weather information for Mill Valley, CA from the National Weather Service: forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.9077&lon=-122.5482#.Y0Yfo-xKj0o

Weather information for Mt. Tamalpais from Mountain-Forecast.com: www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Tamalpais/forecasts/784

Government agencies with jurisdiction on Mt. Tamalpais

Mount Tamalpais State Park: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471

Marin Municipal Water District: www.marinwater.org/mt-tam-watershed

Marin County Parks: www.parks.marincounty.org

Muir Woods National Monument: www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm

Golden Gate National Recreation Area: www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm

Non-profit organizations that steward Mt. Tamalpais

One Tam: www.onetam.org

Friends of Mt. Tam: www.friendsofmttam.org

Tamalpais Conservation Club: www.tccmarin.org

Books on the circumambulation tradition

Opening the Mountain: Circumambulating Mount Tamalpais, A Ritual Walk by Matthew Davis & Michael Farrell Scott with a foreword by Gary Snyder: www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/opening-the-mountain

Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder: www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/tamalpais-walking-poetry-history-and-prints

“Coming Round the Mountain” a chapter by David Robertson in Real Matter: openlibrary.org/books/OL1009975M/Real_matter

Books on Mt. Tamalpais

California's Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad: The Crookedest Railroad in the World by Tem Wurm & Al Graves

Dreams of Tamalpais by Sharon Skolnick

Mount Tamalpais: A History by Lincoln Fairley & James Heig

"A View of Northern California from Mt. Tamalpais" a chapter by Dennis Breedlove in Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional Anthology of Northern California edited by Peter Berg

To Save a Mountain: The 100-Year Battle for Mt. Tamalpais by Barry Spitz

Essays, articles, podcasts, poems, and other media

The Circumambulation of Mount Tamalpais, a series of works by Forrest Gander, Catherine Girardeau, Judy Halebsky, and Andrea Ross published by Terrain.org in Spring, 2023: terrain.org/category/mount-tamalpais/

“Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais” by Forrest Gander and Ashwini Bhat, with soundtrack by Mohi Bahauddin Dagar, April 6, 2022, a video-poem based on "Circumambulation of Mount Tamalpais" from Gander’s book TWICE ALIVE (New Directions): youtu.be/qtt2pfXx6SY

“Circling the Mountain” by Michael P. Branch in the Winter 2021 issue of National Parks, the magazine of the National Parks Conservation Association: npca.org/articles/2767-circling-the-mountain

“Walking in Circles” by Catherine Girardeau from Above the Fog, a podcast series from Grace Cathedral, February 11, 2019:
abovethefog.libsyn.com/walking-in-circles

“Circumambulating Mt. Tamalpais” by Matthew Davis in the Spring 2015 issue of the Mill Valley Historical Society Review: millvalleylibrary.org/DocumentCenter/View/1619/MVHS_REVIEW_2015-PDF

“Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais” by Andrew Hoyem, February 1971: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31804

Documentaries

The Invisible Peak (hidden in plain sight) by Gary Yost is a 20-minute film, narrated and co-written by Peter Coyote, which explores the U.S. military’s damage to the West Peak during the Cold War and the history of how local citizens have been fighting to restore their mountain to a natural state: vimeo.com/84477950

Other resources

Muir Woods parking permit: gomuirwoods.com