Because 27 wasn't enough and 47 was too many
Summer hiking in the Bay Area is tricky. You get out of the seven square miles of the city and all of a sudden it’s really, truly summer. And when it’s 99 degrees in the South Bay, that means a lot of trails can be miserable. Not the ones inside of Portola Redwoods State Park, […]
Read More Portola Redwoods State ParkFour or so years ago, a group of girlfriends and I assembled in Santa Fe for a long weekend. We had finished grad school together the year before, and subsequently scattered back around the country. So this trip was our reunion, and it included everything we loved: hiking, games, wine, spa, great food, ridiculous conversation. […]
Read More Mt. Sanitas via Lion’s Lair TrailAlpine Lake was my half-way-to-37 hike. Well, one of them anyway. And I’m pretty sure it’s going to end up on my top 10 list. (Why yes, I have started plotting that already.) Here’s why: this one relatively short hike includes a stroll along a pretty lake (once you get past the water pump), a […]
Read More Alpine Lake: Kent Trail and Rocky Ridge Fire RoadMy friends had two requests as I researched this hike: views and something easy. So when I saw pictures of flowing waterfalls and read that it was only three and a half miles, I was confident that this hike would deliver on both. Oops. It’s not actually that the trail to Carson Falls is hard. […]
Read More Carson FallsThree easy steps to figure out if a hike in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park is right for you: (1) You like hikes that pay off with 360° views of the Bay Area (2) The idea of hiking among grazing cows gives you a sense of delight (3) You’re a living, breathing person If you answered […]
Read More Wildcat Canyon Regional Park: Wildcat and San Pablo Ridge TrailsSummer finally came to the Bay Area this weekend. While most of the city day-drank at Dolores and followed that up by day-drinking at Bay2Breakers, I hit up Wunderlich County Park in Woodside. In its opening lines on Wikipedia, Woodside is described as “home to many horses and is among the wealthiest communities in the United States”. So there’s that. The […]
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