Category: Day hiking

Hiking the Olmstead Loop near Cool, Calif.

A nice way to stretch our legs.

A nice way to stretch our legs.

Brent and I walked around the lower foothills last weekend. We lacked a real map so we’re not sure if we did the “proper” route.

Alamere Falls hike from Palomarin

Started the weekend with a screening of the beautiful Mile, Mile and a Half JMT film at Clifbar.

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Crammed a bevy of things in during the weekend. Visited five towns and saw lots of people I love.

The other nature connection came with a Sunday hike in southern Point Reyes. Woke up in Bolinas, made french toast, tied our shoes and hit the trail. Skipped swimming in Bass Lake this trip, but did scurry down the crumbling bluff to the beach. There sure are a lot of people willing to walk the narrow tunnel of poison oak that is the unmaintained trail to the falls.

Beautiful park as usual.

California Recreational Trails Plan

For being a “Trail Information Specialist” there sure is a lot that I don’t know.

Take this map. I only had the vaguest idea of this project/website/plan/group before this internet surfing session.

I think this is neat.

I think this is neat.

Be sure to visit their website for the detail maps that provide an overview of SoCal and the 38th parallel. Also, sit down and read the California Recreational Trails Plan.

Hiking the Blue Ridge loop – Cache Creek

 

Brent and I did a hike we’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I’d forgotten about the note I left him on Fiske. It was a fun surprise to see what I’d written him.

It was a great, very lightly traveled hike. For being so close to urban areas, the trail is reverting back to nature due to lack of use.

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