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New Brushy Peak Loop
Brushy Peak's beautiful 2008 addition. This 4.5-mi loop and 950-foot elevation makes a perfect afternoon hike.
Brushy Peak's beautiful 2008 addition. This 4.5-mi loop and 950-foot elevation makes a perfect afternoon hike.
Moderate
4.6 mi/
7.4 km
7.4 km
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Brushy Peak's beautiful 2008 addition. This 4.5-mi loop and 950-foot elevation makes a perfect afternoon hike.
Community Trips
A week after climbing Diablo and five days after getting my new eTrex Venture HC, Stefan & I decided to do something a little less demanding so we opted to try Brushy Peak Regional Preserve northeast of livermore. We decided to try the 4+ mile Brushy Peak Loop Trail and started out from the trailhead at about 1:00 p.m., once again in a cold miserable fog. We were encouraged by other hikers...
Yesterday four adults, three three-year-olds, and two dogs set out to visit Brushy peak. Stephan & I did this hike back in January when it was fogged in at lower elevations and gorgeous once we climbed out of the fog. Back then everything was green but at some point in the last week or so I must have blinked and the hills turned brown when I wasn't looking. Even so, this was a...
We took Lisa out for a hike for Administrators Day. It was cloudy and very windy and spitting light rain. We got back before the heavy rain started. A beautiful day for a hike!
A crew of five from the GBA (not2b, sfodoug, preyas, bykenut, and McDur) headed for Brushy Peak, aka "Puzzle Mountain", to find a bunch of puzzle caches, including the solution to this year's Venona coin puzzle. It was a beautiful sunny day. My picture positions are slightly off, and there was lots of cross-country hiking (trails? what trails?) to get to where we needed to be.
We hike the newly dedicated trail through the saddle of Brushy Peak.
Nice hike on a cool foggy day.
New Years Day is often a little cloudy to folks, but this News Years Day Hike was quite the extreme! Dense fog except for a little break just past the high point of the hike.
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