Popular with mountain bikers, El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve has a collection of trails that is also very fun for running! The park is located off the westside of Skyline Blvd. El Corte features some single track and some fire road, but I try to design loops with as much single track…
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Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell State Park
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a very famous tourist stop, complete with a visitor center and promenade through some old growth redwoods. However, there is a whole other unit of Henry Cowell at Fall Creek canyon. that is rugged, primitive, and much less visited. There is a dirt parking lot off Felton-Empire Road, but…
Portola Valley Ranch Figure-8 Loop
After a few visits, I have successfully designed a long loop through Portola Valley Ranch that is all trails with only a small section of repetition (0.4 mile) along the Arroyo Trail. The run described below makes a figure-8 loop and is a nice combination of single track and wider paths. The setting is mostly…
Butano Ridge Loop
Last week I had the opportunity to check out the Butano Ridge Loop (not to be confused with Butano State Park described here) in Pescadero Creek County Park which was another fantastic run in deep redwood forest. The loop itself is 10.3 miles, but it requires a couple miles each way to get to the…
Purisima Creek Redwoods OSP
Another fantastic run on some trails I have never run before at Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve (map). I have always known of Purisima’s existence, but chose to run at neighboring El Corte de Madera Creek OSP because it seemed like there were more trails and options there. Indeed, while Purisima Creek Redwoods has…
Bay Area Trails List
Check out the new Trails Page! I made a listing of 50+ locations in the Bay Area for great trail running. I have run at many of the parks, but a few remain for future exploration. The trail running is fantastic around here! Everything from single track in redwoods to sweeping view of the bay…
Butano State Park
After three full-day bar review lectures (including today, Saturday) I decided to explore a new area in the Santa Cruz Mountains to clear the mind. I also said I would chime in if something cool happened, so here is something cool! I left Stanford at 4:30 pm after class and arrived at Butano State Park…
Booked by the Bar
The review course for the CA bar exam is now in full-swing. As anticipated, studying for this 3-day test is going to entirely dominate the next couple months. Unfortunately, this means a rather uninteresting period of time for me as far as athletic pursuits and therefore little to write about on here about myself 😦 …
Return to winter in the High Sierra
Plans to climb in the high Sierra this Memorial Day Weekend have been spoiled by an usually cool and unsettled weather pattern. This is especially untimely considering there hasn’t been a significant snow in several months! High elevation temps (over 10k feet) are under freezing all day with poor visibility and snow showers. The snow…
Cougar Mountain 5 Mile Trail Race
Home in Sammamish for the week, I wanted to check out the 4-race trail running series at Cougar Mountain. The first event, a 5 mile trail run, was held this morning. The subsequent races get progressively longer with a 7.5 miler next month, a 10 miler in July, and a 13 miler in August. The…
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