I took my third backpacking trip in Henry Coe State Park in early June. My previous trips were both out-and-back affairs, starting and ending at the park’s northern headquarters on East Dunne Ave. For this outing I planned a through hike instead, entering the 87,000 acres of parkland at the headquarters entrance and leaving via [...]
Spring is definitely in the air here in northern California. And this time of year I always start to feel an old, familiar itch: the desire to get seriously lost in the woods, right and proper. During a recent conversation about my plans for a trek into the Orestimba Wilderness, a friend raised one eyebrow [...]
I finished my first foray into Henry Coe State Park in mid April. It was a short trip into the Blue Ridge Zone, hence the name of the article. I used this trip as prep work for the longer trek I planned for late April (more on that trip in a subsequent post). After taking [...]
On Monday I returned home from a three day, two night, thirty mile solo backpack along the Ohlone Trail. I hiked from the Stanford Avenue parking area at the foot of Mission Peak to the Lichen Bark parking area in Del Valle. Bella couldn’t come along on this trip because dogs are not allowed overnight [...]
Today, Margot, Bella, and I hiked a 6.2 mile loop through the Mission Peak Regional Preserve. It’s a large area (about 3000 acres) with miles of hiking trails, including sections of the Bay Area Ridge Trail and the Ohlone Trail. The views are breathtaking from countless places in the park, which looks down across Fremont [...]
