Hiking Trails and Trips
Trips
A nice hike with my daughter in Rancho Canada this afternoon. We managed to get in a mini hike but turned back short of our goal with foreboding black clouds coming in. We were searching for salamanders and newts but ended up with just a milliepede find which was fine as Alex was entirely thrilled with that. Love this park... usually not very busy and puts on some great flower and wildlife shows most every...
A quick hike around a part of STP I hadn't explored before. Nice singletrack and a side visit to STP falls which must be quite impressive just after a good amount of rain.
A nice tour of three peaks from the Hunting Hollow entrance. I had intended to only do Vasquez peak today since I'd been to Willson Peak before but when I consulted the map at a decision point I decided to throw in Willson and then added Rock Springs Peak later on so it became a trifecta of sorts.The hike starts along the nice flat Hunting Hollow trail with about four creek crossings, the...
Just a quick walk since I was bored and to kill an hour or so. Not much in the way of flowers up here yet but great views from the top. A large shaft of light was illuminating the newly verdant east SJ hills that made this mini hike worthwhile. On the way back I noticed that some large birds I haven't seen before were staged about every 500 feet along the...
Waterfalls of Berry Creek and McAbee Peak
Riverside Grove, California, United States
Hiking | 13.0 miles
Hiking | 13.0 miles
This hike is brought to you by The Nino. I always love an El Nino year so as soon as it fired up plans were started to hike out and check out the amazing falls here.It's a very beautiful but challenging little hike through Big Basin. We intended to go clockwise but the latest storms had downed many trees in the park making Skyline to the Sea trail impassable according to the Rangers. It...
A quick hike from Stiles to Fortini to see how the flowers are doing. Poppies have started along Stiles already, looks like another banner year for them. Saw a single California Gilia along stiles as well as some fiddlenecks, goldfields, shooting stars, claytonia, lomatium and some buttercups. Not bad for January. Gotta love California for shorts and tshirt hiking in January. Trails were muddy but not terrible. Saw a Kestrel and another...
I brought the girls over the hill to Gazos Creek to look for Salamanders and Newts and things. They had a great time flipping logs and searching around with a find count of 6 newts and 2 different types of salamanders plus probably 50 different types of mushrooms and fungus. After we were done exploring the area at the end of the road we decided to do a quick hike before grabbing...
My main target was a walk along New Almaden to check out the waterfalls during the latest storm once up there I decided to loop around Mine Hill to see if I could see mucho crazy ass Sammydee up on Sombroso :-) Unlike Sam I waited for the main front to pass to start my hike today but still got completely soaked by the secondary storms. Along Mine Hill the rain was near horizontal and the wind...
Quicksilver: Last hike of 2009
Guadalupe (historical), California, United States
Hiking | 13.3 miles
Hiking | 13.3 miles
My last hike of the year with an old buddy. He said he had 2-3 hours to hike so we did six and almost 14 miles. It's a nice hike around most of Quicksilver which starts from the McAbee entrance, heads past Senador Mines to Guadalupe reservoir, then up Mine Hill to San Cristobal Mine, on the descent you stop by April Trestle and the powder house. The Great Eastern trail takes...
Bay Area Ridge Trail: Marin Headlands to Shoreline Highway
Sausalito, California, United States
Hiking | 8.3 miles
Hiking | 8.3 miles
This is a great hike across the headlands with expansive views of the Golden Gate, the Marin Headlands, the North Bay and Pacific. You gain a lot of elevation but for some reason (maybe temps in the 40s/50s?) it doesn't feel like half of what the DEM data says.Sammydee and I dropped a car up on Hwy 1 and shuttled back to parking at the NW parking lot near the northern end...
A nice winter's day hike around Arastradero with a little side trip into Foothills park in an ill fated attempt to do some of the Bay to Ridge trail. I turned left to gain elevation when I should have gone right and down to pick up the Ridge trail. I did get to see Panaroma Point as a result of my mistake so got some nice views of SF and beyond including...
Just a quick hike to get out of the house and an excuse to drive Hwy 9 and Skyline today :-)Headed down from Skyline into the canyon where I spent a lot of time as a kid. Only saw a few people today. Lots of banana slugs and about three really nice bucks in two spots. On the way out I was treated to a nice sunset over Skyline OSP. Good fun....
Bay Area Ridge Trail: Fifield Cahill Ridge
Westborough, California, United States
Hiking | 13.2 miles
Hiking | 13.2 miles
A hike along the Fifield Ridge Trail to complete a section of the Bay Area Ridge Trail with my friends; Chris, Dave, David, Joe, Laurent, Pang, Rebecca and Sam.This trip takes some planning in that you need to select a date that is available, get your permits, and arrange for enough vehicles to shuttle your group North to Sweeney Ridge to start the hike.The hike started at the back of Skyline college,...
Joe and I came out for a little hike around to check out some more off-trail areas.
Woke up earlier than the ranger so I was the first into the park this morning. On the way up to the park I saw the most Turkeys I've ever seen on Casa Loma Rd, probably over 100 of them in three different groups. Two males were strutting their stuff and putting on a good show for the ladies. Once in the park proper I didn't see as much wildlife down in the lower meadows...
Domino Pond via Wasno Ridge
Madrone Soda Springs (historical), California, United States
Hiking | 10.2 miles
Hiking | 10.2 miles
I usually hike Coe after Turkey day but had a few days off before so decided to shoot down and do a nice solo hike today. My original plan was to get out to Kelly Lake but after coming down off of Wasno Ridge and consulting the map I realized I'd be hiking out in the dark if I added those extra 3 miles or so. I decided against that since I was alone...
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A nice walk along the North Escape road with Alex and her friend Amber. Our goal for the day was to find a Banana slug but we found 13 and a newt. Also found many different types of mushrooms including a Coral Mushroom that Alex discovered which was really cool.
A walk around Hsinchu. I headed out of the hotel with the intent of getting back into the foothills and up to a reservoir about 4 miles from my hotel. I managed to go about 2.5 miles up along a river before I was turned back by a pack of about 15-20 large dogs. Fortunately after tailing me for about 300 feet an even bigger dog that was chained up put a...
Backcountry Weekend 2006 Sunday
Madrone Soda Springs (historical), California, United States
Hiking | 7.8 miles
Hiking | 7.8 miles
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