We walked from the Skyline entrance
along the West Ridge trail of Redwood Regional Park. The plan had
been to lunch at the Redwood Bowl, but we reached that spot before
even we were ready to eat. So we wandered on to Roberts Grove
before returning to the dryer tables of the Bowl for lunch. The
extra bit stretched the walk to 4.7 miles which felt longer as it
was quite humid after last night's showers.
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Tom Stienstra wrote in last Sunday's SF Chronicle about a section of the SF Bay trail in San Rafael. Shirley saw it, Elaine saw it, I saw it. So today we explored it. Eight of us had a very nice walk. Not too
many interesting plants, but a fair number of birds and the views were
great.
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Shirley led us on a new walk today. We parked on
Vicente Rd then rambled through the neighborhood (Alvarado Rd,
Willow Walk, Eucalyptus Path, Slater Ln and Evergreen Ln) to reach
Garber Park. It is a 13-acre City of Oakland woodland park
located behind the Claremont Hotel. The mile long Loop Trail took
us from the 1920's era stone Fireplace Plaza through a forest of
oaks, Bay, Big Leaf Maples and Buckeyes. We returned to the cars
via Evergreen Lane and Path, Alvarado Place and Rd. Our lunch stop
was in a quiet grove at the foot of Willow Walk. Total distance
only 2 miles.
The upper part of the walk was part of the area consumed by the
1991 firestorm. The architecture was very different than in the
areas which had not burned.
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A short morning walk today. We went from the
Valle Vista staging area on Canyon Rd thru the old growth pines to
the bridge. Then left on the Rimer Creek Trail and eventually up
the hill to the Rocky Ridge Trail. Down to meet the King's Canyon
Loop Trail and so back to the cars. Under 3 miles.
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A wonderful day! Shirley led us from the park in
Pt Richmond, over the hill to Keller's Beach, out to Ferry Point,
back to the lagoon for lunch and then through the tunnel to return
to the cars. The best part of the day was having Jeanne back with
us!
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