07/30 - from Rancho Laguna Park

The weather being schizophrenic, with today being one of the cool cloudy ones, we walked on the EBMUD King's Canyon Trail in Moraga. This time we started from Rancho Laguna Park (first time since July 2017) and walked out to the main section of the San Leandro Reservoir, retracing our route after a quick snack at the conveniently place bench. Lots of birds, many too distant to id with any certainty. Very quiet with an early fall feel. Eleven walkers. Just over 3 miles.

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07/23 - WC Open Space

In the fourteen years I've hiked with the Wednesday Walkers, we have started from the Whitecliff Trailhead five times (11/2011, 10/2012, 04/2015, 04/2016 and 03/2020) and in each case we walked a CCW circle; check the blog for picture links if you are interested.

This time we broke with tradition and walked clockwise. That was a very good choice. 

The hike started with fog and ended with bright sunshine. The weather was perfect for walking and this route was one which wouldn't have been at all enjoyable in "normal" July weather. Everything is dry and the grass is high. No flowers except for a patch of Madia and way too much star thistle! There were lots of acorn woodpeckers and various other "bush birds". It was definitely not boring.

There were 13 of us on the hike of just under 3 miles.

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07/16 - Sibley

 

There were eleven of us today on a foggy, drippy visit to Sibley. The weather was more like February than July. We walked CCW from the Skyline staging area, around Roundtop. In all the times I have been to Sibley I've never ventured down to the large labyrinth at the far east end of the loop. So today we did that. And on the way back we took the Overlook trail across and down the hill back to the parking lot. Not much more than 2 miles. 

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07/09 Tilden

 

There were 11 of us today on our first group hike in a month. We made the 3 mile loop from Inspiration Pt.; down Meadows Canyon Tr, along Wildcat Creek and up Curran Tr.

There was plenty to see and it was good to be together and back on the trails.

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07-02 No hike

 Summer party at the McDougall's.

06-25 No hike

 Home from Caples, but other responsibilities took precedence.