Hiking Trails and Trips in United States
Trips
I can see this hill every time I traveled on Freeway 85. Finally, after black Friday, and Turkey Trot 10K run on Thanksgiving Day, I did this trail.On the southern part of the trail, it is basically fire roads, wide and gentle slope, pretty good for mountain biking. On the northern part of the trail, however, it is mostly small narrow trail for hikers only, but in shade most of the time....
This preserve is on the other side of Highway 17 from Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, which I hiked earlier. I saw the trail across the valley and consulted with my co-worker. He highly recommended this trail.The view is nice and definitely worth to come back in the future.
This hike winds through Fremont Older Open Space Preserve and Stevens Creek County Park. I also got beautiful view of South Bay and Stevens Creek Reservoir, although the Reservoir has low level of water.The first accent was very steep, made me worry how I could come down on the way back. There are many choices of the trails you can turn in, so make sure that you have a good map of...
This is a planned long hike, recommended by my co-worker who ride mountain bike often on this trail. I started early, before the sun rise, so nobody is on the road or trail. I parked car on Redwood Gulch Road because it's No Parking on Stevens Canyon Road. It's a bit more than a mile to the trailhead of Canyon trail. The whol Canyon trail follows the Creek so it's quite gental accent. After...
This is a group hiking event.We arrived at the trailhead at 8:30am and already found difficult to get a parking spot, unless you are willing to wait for people to leave. I just parked car in the residential area, and hiked half mile more to the trailhead.The PGE trail is for power company to maintain their power line. So this trail follows pretty much with the power line, relatively easy on both...
Mount Sizer is a prominent peak located on Blue Ridge in Henry W. Coe State Park, just east of Morgan Hill, California. Because Mount Sizer is the highest point on Blue Ridge and under 10 miles (16 km) miles from the park's headquarters, it makes it an ideal destination for day hikers. I started early and there are only a few cars in the parking lot. I paid parking fee ($8). Some of...
Recently, I started to have long hike that's 12 to 15 miles in about 4 hours. This trail comes to my plan a week ago. I arrived the trailhead of Limekiln Trail at 6:12am, only one car is on the parking lot (usually, it's packed with cars later). The guy was not her for hiking but for fishing. I planned to hike along Limekiln Trail out and come back on Priest Rock Trail to...
Mission Peak is a very popular hiking destination in the Bay Area. On weekend, more than 1000 people hiking up. But most start from Stanford Ave Parking lot. There is another route, which is slightly longer and more gental slope, is from Ohlone College. One week after our Mt Whitney day hike, my friends and I did this Mission Peak hike. I only occationally hiked up the mission, but my friends hike twice...
San Bruno Mountain State Park is in the middle of densely populated area, therefore a each reach wildness. The hike itself is pretty easy with a lot of great views. You can see San Francisco downtown, Bay Bridges, SFO airport and all surrounding residential and Industrial areas. Highly recommended.
This has been a long planned hike trip. It explores the wildness of the Marin County, just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge.Early morning on the July 4 long weekend, I parked my car just south of Golden Gate Bridge, a free, unpaved parking lot we always use when we visit the Golden Gate Bridge. The weather is cool, perfect for the hiking.The first part of the hike is...
It was a cloudy day, and actually quite chilly for this time of year.We arrived the parking lot at trailhead and found that the small parking lot can only have 12 cars and there was not spot. Later, we found that if you driver a little bit more into Rhus Ridge Road, there is another hidden small parking lot, which hold 4 cars. So we parked car there and started the hike.The initial...
This is the longest trail of our senior hiking group, a 20 mile/6000' elevation gain day trip. This is a hard hike for any average hiker in any age group.We parked our cars in Sunol Reginal Park. The family member of one of our group member took us to the starting point of the trail in Lake Del Valle State Park in Livermore.The first accent is hard, from altitude of 500' all...
This year, we got a lot of rain and the wild flowers and grass are much better than the normal year. It is certainly very beautiful time of the time for this highest peak in the Bay Area.We started early and had fun talking along the way. This year, we bypassed Olympic Peak and North Peak and directly targeted to the Diablo Peak. Along the way, it is really magneficant view around...
Mission Peak Hike is a very popular day hike in the south/east Bay. On weekend, you will see thousands of people hike to the Mission Peak from the Stanford Ave parking lot. You will have hard time to find a close-by parking spot even on the street, that could be half a mile from the trail head.The hike is moderate 5.5 miles up and down with about 2000' elevation gain. The trail...
This really long hike is organized by INCH hiking group. It follows the Diablo Trail 50k run, so we have the map downloaded for the directions. The trail is 31 miles with over 7000ft elevation gain. Weather forecast said that there is 80% chance of show, almost a certain wet weather.We gathered together at Indian Valley Elementary School at 5:05am in Walnut Creek, which is the end of the trail. Three volunteer...
Hike Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim South Kaibab in one day
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, United States
Hiking | 21 miles
Hiking | 21 miles
We three guys arrived Grand Canyon South Kaibab trailhead at 12:30pm via park's shuttle bus. We planed to hike from here to North Rim in about 12 hours. The weather was not very hot at 80 degrees. We knew that by the time of reaching Phantom Ranch in the bottom of the Canyon, the temperature will be in mid 90s to possibly 100 degrees.Going down the Canyon seemed effortless. My friends were...
Grand Canyon Rim-To-Rim in one day, Bright Angle
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, United States
Hiking | 23 miles
Hiking | 23 miles
Hiking Rim-To-Rim in one day has been my dream for some years. This week in the beginning of Sept 2010, the dream came true with a number of friends visiting Grand Canyon. I, by myself, performed this solo Rim-To-Rim from Bright Angle at South Rim, to North Kaibab at North Rim. The total distance is 24 miles, with elevation gain of about 6000 feet, about the same as Mt. Whitney, at lower...
I like to have long day hike. So I planed myself of this Mount Diablo Five Peaks Hike on the July 4 weekend, although compared with other of my long hikes (25-30 miles), this one is kind of short. The five peaks covered are:
Mt. Olympia (2946')
North Peak (3557')
Mt. Diablo Summit (3849')
Eagle Peak (2369')
Twin Peak
I planed to start early in the morning for cooler weather. Arriving at 5:50am, I found that the Park...
This is my first long hike with INCH (Intrepid Northern California Hikers) club. They hike at very fast pace, up and down. Fortunately, I somehow managed to follow them and finished this difficult long hike.We start at Hunting Hollow Entrance of Henry Coe State Park in Gilroy. The first 2 miles are flat, paved road along Gilroy Hot Spring Road to the Coyote Creek Entrance, which has no parking spaces. We started...
This is a classic hike in the Big Basin State Park. The usual Berry Creek Falls Loop is about 10 miles. To increase the intensity, we added an additional loop to make a 14 mile loop.Unfortunately, the gpx file is not complete, partly because I did not start track correctly in the beginning, only realized it after a few miles into the hike. And partly may be caused by dense forest. Anyway,...
