Hiking Trails and Trips
Trips
This was a warm up hike to get my missus ready for an assault on El Sombroso. We parked at the woods road entrance and headed down woods road. I stopped several times to take in delightful views and snap plenty of pictures. It was a perfect day to be out here. It was cool with just the slightest breeze. The first couple miles are mostly flat but you do drop...
Hoped to do the Ohlone Bluff Trail along the ocean an got about half way there before turning back. The park map doe snot have mileage. I estimate form my track and google maps the bluff trail is about 10 miles which makes it nearly 20 miles overall. Way too much for the missus and pushing it for me.The coastline was beautiful this day. We parked along highway one and climbed the hillside and walked...
Cool crisp March morning at 9:00 AM at Coe HQ. I have never been this direction or these trails so I had no idea what to expect. All I heard was "mostly downhill" and "8 or 9 miles". Pretty much neither of these were reality. For the most part, I liked this route. Almost all single track and lots of contour lines to follow. Even still it was a moderately strenuous hike with...
Crisp Cool morning in the Morgan Hill Foothills at Harvey Bear Park. I expected a short, somewhat quick hike. Turns our it was going to be a fast hike but not so short. The path starts out flat for 1/4 mile then starts rising up the foot hills. It was cold with a heavy fog so it was east to stay cool. In the summer, the first couple miles...
The saga of attempts to hasten my ultimate demise continued this cool February morning. We started early from San Jose to reach the trail head around 9 AM. It was a clear day and somewhat cool at around 55-60F. We started out around 9:30 am, being cautious crossing the road, to the trail head. Just crossing the road was he first attempt on me. The series of cutbacks were pretty easy. You...
We planned a nice moderate hike through some unknown areas of Toro Park in Salinas, CA. Two us never hiked the park and two had a unsuccessful hike a couple years ago in the hot days of summer. None were too familiar with the park. We parked outside the park and walked across the day use area to the Ollason Trail to the Ranch Trail. This was pretty gentle with...
The air was still. 200 feet below, rowing teams practiced on the
calm, still waters of the Lexington Reservoir.
A heavy fog filled the air. A
light mist coved our electronic with tiny water dropplets. On out Androids and
Iphones, we started app. Out FitBits all
had activities started. GPS was
recording a new track. At 8:45 am, Project
Kill Joe: The El Sombroso Affair was in
action.
Priests Rock trail is up
hill. Relentless from the start and filled
torturous grades...
The Dowdy Ranch Attempt On My Life
Madrone Soda Springs, California, United States
Hiking | 6.0 miles
Hiking | 6.0 miles
Three big hikes in Henry Coe Park Had a miserable time all three. There is no happiness here. Just misery and wishing for death. This days was friggin hot. But we didn't know that. It was planned to be a pretty quick albeit hard hike to Tie Down and summit the peak. Satellite images shows some game trails but not official trail. It looked like the south face could be navigated. All...
Hiking in 100degree heat with Bullit and Vaudesir.Started at Sprig Recreation parking area off Highway 152. Took Merry Go Round tail. Extreme heat and relentlessly hard grade made me reconsider hiking as a recreation. Cheered on by Bullit and Vaudesir, we eventually made it to the rest area near Old Mine Trail. You might wan tto explore a little. I wanted to take nap! We continued on Merry Go Round to the...
Mt Sizer Hike: 6/6/09 HQ, Hobbes Rd, Jackass, Narrows, China Hole, Mile Tr, ****** Madrone Soda Spring Trail, HQ
Hiking |
17.6 miles
June 6, 2009. First hike in 5 months. We Left HA at 7 am and took Monument Tail to Hobbs Road over Blue Ridge. We dropped 1500 feet of elevation. Don't be so happy, you have to make it all back up in the next mile and a half. It took 3.2 hours to the creek at the bootom of the "shortcut" verticle road. We rested at Coyote creek for 30 minutes...
