Hiking Trails and Trips

There are numerous descriptions of this hike already on EveryTrail; in fact, I used a few of them when trying to verify the route in the week leading up to the hike.  It's a well-known (locally) route that starts at Saratoga Gap (the junction of Highways 35 -- Skyline Boulevard -- and 9) and ends at Waddell Beach on the Pacific Ocean.  It's not all downhill, despite appearances, but the uphill sections...

(See Laurent's trip report here) After Backcountry Weekend (note: I believe that URL gets updated annually) got canceled, I wanted to get onto the trail for a long dayhike on Saturday.  Laurent decided that Hat Rock would make a decent destination, and the hike was on.Since Laurent's already written up the route, I won't write my usual narrative tome.  Bullet points follow:This is the second week in a row that we've found ourselves...

The Bay Area Ridge Trail organization runs two major organized fundraiser hikes every year: Ridge to Bridge in the spring in Marin, and the Ridge Trail Cruz in the fall in the south bay.  Each event has a series of hikes, bike rides, and equestrian rides; in the fall, there's been a "family hike" for the past couple years that my family has participated in.  This year, the Ridge Trail council decided...

I managed to convince the entire family to go hiking with me, on a roughly three-and-a-half mile track that will serve as the "family hike" for this years Bay Area Ridge Trail "Ridge to Bridge" event.  The Tennessee Beach trail heads from the end of Tennessee Valley road in Mill Valley down to the coast, is fairly level, and has plenty to look at along the way.This is obviously a popular area...

Joel and I decided to go check out the Big Basin waterfalls before the end of the wet season; our (well, my) original plan was to head up the Howard King Trail to Mt. McAbee, then over and down to the Berry Creek Falls trail and out via the Sunset Trail.  I'd heard (from all these folks' hikes) that the Howard King trail from Skyline-to-the-Sea to Mt. McAbee was a pretty tough...

A couple of weeks ago, I was poking around EveryTrail looking for a fun hike.  I stumbled across Vaudesir's "Lake Del Valle to Murrieta Fall (Ohlone trail)", and immediately favorited it. A little more digging turned up tommangan's Ohlone Wilderness Trail Guide, who mentions that Murietta Falls only run after "several days of rain".  With the Bay Area getting nigh-endless rain for the last week, it seemed like an ideal time to...

The day started with being tasked to get my two-and-a-half year old son out of the house for most of the day.  There was a dinner party in the works, and Pete is a bit too inquisitive to be able to handle raw lamb and half-rolled grape leaves sitting on the counter while preparations were underway.I decided to head to Pacheco State Park, primarily because I'd never been there before and it...

I've decided I'm going to hike at least 365 miles in 2010.  I tried to do this last year, but didn't decide to go for it until April or May (after spending most of February and March on the couch) and got sidetracked by football in the fall (an aside: neither the Michigan Wolverines nor the Cleveland Browns were worth getting sidetracked by, last year).  This year, I've decided that if I...

A fun, somewhat roller-coaster-ish hike through Calero Reservoir County Park and Rancho Cañada del Oro Open Space Preserve.  Both parks are considered fantastic equestrian parks, so either keep your eyes on the trail or wear some boots you don't mind getting a little... messy.I wouldn't want to do this trail any later in June (or through the hottest part of the summer); but there's plenty of interspersed California laurel / canyon live...