I checked out another stellar peninsula trail running location at Sanborn County Park and Castle Rock State Park. The loop I ran covered between 12 and 12.5 miles with a great variety of trails, beautiful forest, great vistas, and no trail repeated. The start/finish point was at Saratoga Gap. I began with a 3.2 mile…
Month: October 2008
Portola Redwoods – Peters Creek Loop
Armed with recent trail info from Will Gotthardt (thanks!), I checked out the Peters Creek Loop at Portola Redwoods State Park. An excerpt from the State Park’s description of the hike sums it up best: “This long and strenuous hike takes you to some of the most spectacular old growth redwoods in the Santa Cruz…
New Mountain Photography Galleries
Check out the new mountain photography galleries on my website! 2008 2007 2006 2005 The 2008 gallery is new and the 2005-2007 galleries contain the same photos as on the old Stanford webspace, but they are now in a new format. There is also a slideshow for 2008.
Fremont Older-Stevens Creek Loop
I dropped my mom off at the San Jose airport so I took the opportunity to visit a pair of parks I have never seen in the area just outside of Cupertino: Fremont Older Open Space Preserve and Stevens Creek County Park. These parks are great! The vistas are gorgeous and there is nice variety…
Golden Hills Trail Marathon 2008
I had great memories of the Golden Hills Trail Marathon from last year so it was an easy decision to return this year. The marathon course does a grand tour of the East Bay Regional Parks traveling through Tilden, Sibley, Huckleberry, Redwood, and Lake Chabot Regional Parks. There is ample hill climbing on the route…
Favorite Peninsula Loops
I am a big fan of loops – especialy scenic ones 😉  Here is a list of my favorite long trail loops on the Peninsula. Seven of the twelve are predominantly in redwood forest (*). The mileage posted is for the minimum necessary to complete the loop – additions can be made to lengthen any…
Huddart/Phleger/Purisima Loop
This fantastic loop was designed by my friend Gary Gellin. It incorporates three parks on both sides of Skyline Blvd, tons of sweet single track under lush redwood forest, a couple good hill climbs, and views to Half Moon Bay and the Pacific Coastline. The loop is 17.5+ miles and has 3,000+ of elevation gain….
First Rain of the Season
An unseasonably strong weather system shoved the ridge of high pressure that resides in California all summer off to the east allowing for the first substantial rain of the season. Due to the unusually dry spring, I had to look all the way back to March to find the last prior rain event of this…
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