The Sawyer Camp Trail is a popular 6 mile trail in the San Andreas rift valley south of San Francisco in the Crystal Springs Watershed. According to the San Mateo Parks Department, approximately 300,000 visitors use the trail every year making it the most popular trail in the county. The trail is a multi-use paved…
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Huddart Park
It has been raining a lot in the Bay Area the past month and the streams have been running high. Local rainfall totals over the past 30 days include over 12 inches in the town of Woodside, over 14 inches on Pulgas Ridge, and over 18 inches on Kings Mountain. The traditionally wettest location on…
Sequoia 20k
On Saturday I ran the 20k at Pacific Coast Trail Runs’ (PCTR) Sequoia event, which is located in Joaquin Miller Park and Redwood Regional Park. The course hits the highlights of the parks with the lush redwood forests, ridgetop vistas, and views of the SF Bay. I had a good run coming in at 1:21:48…
Beautiful Bay Area Gallery
I have accumulated enough nice photos from my trail runs around the Bay Area to create a photo gallery! If you follow my blog these pictures should be familiar, but it always looks different when placed in a compilation format. I hope to someday create region-specific galleries for the Peninsula, Marin County, East Bay, Big…
Big Basin Waterfalls
Big Basin Redwoods State Park received over a foot of rain in a span of 60 hours providing a great opportunity to visit the waterfalls along the Skyline-Sunset loop, including Berry Creek Falls, Silver Falls, and Golden Cascade. The trails were very muddy, I was running in a stream in many places, and there were…
Huddart/Phleger Water Show
After a very dry start to the winter, a powerful storm system delivered over 6 inches of rain to Kings Mountain and over 4 inches to Woodside in a span of 30 hours. This rain resulted in super high water volumes in the streams flowing through Huddart County Park and Phleger Estate, including McGarvey Gulch…
Pescadero – Old Haul Road
Pescadero Park is mainly single track trails, but there is an old logging road (Old Haul Road) that cuts across the park that is a wide soft surface path that provides a nice break from the focus required on the twisty/rooty singles. A thick second growth redwood forest grows along the entire 5+ mile route…
Best Peninsula Single Tracks
Here is a list of my twelve favorite single track trails on the SF Peninsula. The list is generally organized by location from north to south, but they are all located in the Santa Cruz Mountains in a relatively small area that is rich in protected public lands. I can assure you that each one…
PCTR Woodside 17k
My first race of the season was at my “home court” in Huddart Park, Woodside with Pacific Coast Trail Runs. This time I ran the 17k and won in 1:11:00, which beat the course record for the date by 4.5 minutes, but fell a handful of seconds shy of Gary Gellin’s fast 1:10:39 performance on…
Sunol to Rose Peak Run
Last Sunday I checked out the middle section of the Ohlone Wilderness trail between Sunol and Rose Peak (3,817 ft) with tour guide Will G. and fellow La Sportiva team member Caitlin. This was my first time visiting this region and I was impressed with the scenery and the hill climbing! It was a beautiful…
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