Guides and Trips
Trips
Kings Peak Road: Shelter Cove to AW Way Park
Shelter Cove, California, United States
Offroading | 28 miles
Offroading | 28 miles
Full story at my Backroad Navigator site.
Full details for this drive are on my Backroad Navigator website..
Alamitos Creek Trail - Family Bile Ride
Alamitos, California, United States
Mountain biking | 7.8 miles
Mountain biking | 7.8 miles
Family ride. Subtract 200 yards for them as they whined and turned around just before the turn-around point!
Full description at http://broadsword.com/wordpress/?p=2218
Full description on my blog at http://broadsword.com/wordpress/?p=2237
For full story, see http://broadsword.com/wordpress/?p=2190Dirt and back roads. Note that my tracks were fragmented from poor GPS reception and wer manually joined together. As such, there are straight lines between segments in some locations, and overall accuracy will be pretty poor.
Full description at http://broadsword.com/wordpress/?p=2167
A hot Labor Day hike for the Hillside Stragglers, but thankfully there was a nice breeze most of the time.
An epic day of bushwhacking, routefinding, and wading up the river...Ignore the absurd elevation numbers which have to relation to reality!
Slooow hike for me. I'm out of shape for the hills!Actual elevation gain more like 1600', not 5,000, LOL.
Henry Coe Backcountry Weekend 21012 Day Hike
Madrone Soda Springs, California, United States
Hiking | 8.0 miles
Hiking | 8.0 miles
I usually backpack this every year, but this year I could only make it on Sunday. So I did a day hike to Mustang Pond with my Hillside Straggler buddies.I started my track late so the RT mileage should really be like 8.4mi.
A short hike on a slightly drizzly day, looping from Forbes Mill museum. We had actually planned to make the hike a bit longer by heading to Lexington, crossing the dam and returning on the west side of the Los Gatos Creek Trail but we took a wrong turn... On the plus side, Mike was getting cold anyway, and we got to Andale at a good time for our post-hike lunch, since...
It had been a few months since our last Hillside Stragglers hike, and that one was on flat ground, so were were psyched for a good hike. Being December 24th and having Christmas Eve festivities to attend, we opted for a short hike in nearby Alum Rock so that we'd be done as early as possible.This brought a nice 1,000' of climb (nothing like that 4900' the track suggests (sorry iPhone, and...
Hiking solo in an unfamiliar place during a huge storm is a good recipe for a memorable time. The winds howled through the trees and the trail was more like a stream in places, but the real fun came on the exposed bluffs.There, the 75mph winds ripped my fleece beanie right off my head, and I felt lucky to find it later about 80' away, stuck in the tall grass. The wind...
