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Saturday Afternoon Hike – July 21

2007-07-18T19:05:23Z

Saturday Afternoon Hike – July 21

Sutro Baths and Land’s End
http://www.nps.gov/goga/upload/sb-clho-090605web.pdf

A few mile hike and if our gurus come maybe a break for meditation and Qi Gong along the way.

Meeting at the Musee Mecanique – in front of the gift shop at 1 PM. We will be finished at Fort Miley / Sutro Heights by 5 PM. The hike is 4.5-5 miles and along the SF coast.

Lets set up carpools, email me for more information. The hike is open to all and always a good time!

Directions to Musee Mecanique: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Pier+45,+sf,+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.634084,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=37.810225,-122.416363&spn=0.007205,0.014591&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1

Directions to Fort Miley:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Fort+Miley,+sf,+ca&sll=37.810225,-122.416363&sspn=0.007205,0.014591&ie=UTF8&ll=37.778771,-122.505627&spn=0.007208,0.014591&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1

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13-18 mile hike next Saturday June 23: Pt Reyes/Sam Taylor

2007-06-13T20:51:07Z

13-18 mile hike next Saturday June 23: Pt Reyes/Sam Taylor

We had such a fabulous time last week at the hike over bolinas ridge to the inkwells, we will revist this area. This time we'll switch up the trailhead and circle Samual Taylor park and part of Geronmio valley and hit Barnabe Peak and the Inkwells and parts of Point Reyes park and those redwood trees. Or something like that.

This will be a 13-18 mile hike. We will also do a shorted hike that will include a meditation/Qi gong on sunday, possibly...or the follwing week.

http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/upload/map_park.pdf

http://www.ridgetrail.org/newsletters/RidgeLines_2006_Jan-Jun.pdf

http://www.marinwater.org/documents/01.24.06_VstrMap_color.pdf

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Hike Sunday June 10

2007-06-07T23:13:35Z

Hike Sunday

Were hiking this Sunday in the Redwoods of Marin. Bolinas Ridge/Kent lake area – up to 12 miles.

Are you into it – we'll set up the carpools!

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Moonlight Hike June 1

2007-06-01T05:17:02Z

Hello
Last month we hiked into Muir Woods for the moonlight hike - which was beautiful but I neglected the fact that the trees are so thick and luch that the moonlight doesnt cut thorugh.

So this time well make it a place with a view - the De Anza discovery site. NO. 394 SITE OF THE DISCOVERY OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY - On October 31,1769, Captain Gaspar de Portolá was camped by the creek at the south of this valley when scouting parties brought news of a body of water to the east. On November 4, the expedition advanced. Turning inland, the party climbed to the summit of Sweeney Ridge and beheld the Bay of San Francisco for the first time.
Location: Sweeney Ridge, from Hwy 1 take Fassler Ave, then trail to site in Pacifica, plaque located SE corner of Crespi Dr and State Hwy 1, Pacifica
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places: NPS-68000022

We can meet at the parking lot at the start of sweeney ridge at the end of sneath lane or at the parking lot at skyline college or at the one in pacifica -- or at the discovery site - I have been to them all, and its to be figured:

http://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/upload/sb-swri.pdf

http://sfwater.org/publicImages/maps/ridgetrail_map_large.jpg

http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/sweeney.html

http://sepwww.stanford.edu/~morgan/adventures/misc/sweeney_ridge.html

Let me know if you are down.

Adam

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Full Moon Hike June 1

2007-05-24T18:31:38Z

Full Moon Hike June 1

and this time ill make it easier for all to meet!

Above Pacifica/San Bruno to the De Anza discovery site~!

More detail to follow.

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Hot water and ghost towns

2007-05-23T15:04:18Z

Heading out to Bridgeport for the weekend to go soak in Travertine and Buckeye hot springs. It's been too long since I've been to these beautiful springs. Then maybe a break to go visit Bodie ghost town when I can't soak no more. Anybody fancy joining me for this trip, leaving tomorrow afternoon.

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Whiskeytown Falls

2007-04-11T18:29:27Z

Whiskeytown Falls

Its open...lets go this spring!

http://www.nps.gov/archive/whis/exp/whisfalls/whisfallshome.htm

http://www.waterfallswest.com/maps/map_whiskeytown.jpg

http://www.waterfallswest.com/maps/map_whiskeytown.jpg

http://www.nps.gov/archive/whis/pphtml/newsdetail24782.html

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Amazing Hike Sunday

2007-03-28T20:37:47Z

Did you remember the amazing hike sunday? Its the revisit of the Mckennon trail up Bolinas Ridge, I have a better idea of wherethe tail is, so Lets do it one more time. Last year on this date we lost a hiker....

This was written before we know how mad it was:

Hike this weekend? If you're strong enough.

That Murietta Falls hike was the most difficult day hike ive done. Lets continue.

I was thinking of something very special - nothing steep like this past week (3000 foot gain and not as steep) -- a few secretive trails heading up and down Bolinas ridge surrounding the Audubon Canyon Ranch. Funky animals and plants. There may still be Indians hanging out there.

There are no references to this hike that I can find.

14-16 miles.

3100-foot elevation gain.

So berry, berry early.

The egrets will be nesting.

Starting from Mckennan Gulch Trailhead on Rt1 just North of Stinson Beach - 1700 feet up to the Coastal trail, turn left to intersect Bolinas-Fairfax Road. (3.6 Miles)

(OR start at Larsens Lodge Site on Bolinas Fairfax Rd. if we are all suckers, cutting 7 miles off the hike and making it a bunny hike) Descend 1300 feet into Audubon canyon ranch. Range around, and then head back up the 1300 feet. (3-5 miles)

At Larsen's lodge we head back toward to trailhead, but go past the McKesson Gulch trail (1.9 miles) if possible, to pass Cook's Bench and then to Willow Camp trail (1.1 miles) we see astounding views here (3 miles total)

...A 2.5-mile decent back to the trailhead. (4.4 miles) a 1800 foot decent.

The trailhead:

McKennan Gulch: Take Hwy1 west from Hwy 101. Drive through Stinson Beach town and go 1.5 miles north on Hwy 1 with Bolinas Lagoon on your left. After about 1/2 mile past the Stinson School, start looking for an orange cone by a grove of pine trees on the right (orange cone not available for our hike). Pull in and park.

http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/apr25_02/audubon_canyon_ranch.html

http://www.envirosports.com/exec/enviro/maps/wildboarprintmap.pdf

http://www.clanmills.com/Miwok/map4.html

http://www.mtbr.com/trails/California-BayArea/WillowCamp.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/destinations/u_s_regions/west/northern_california/bay_area/2560318.htm

http://www.nps.gov/ggbr/acr_map.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/getoutside/1996/may/lagoonaerial.html

OR, sneak into the Audubon Ranch for stealing glances at teh birds:

Hike Sunday July 16! Not-so-Mad Bolinas Ridge not-so-scramble (changed date)

Hikes are back -- Bolinas Ridge/Audubon Canyon

MAP: www.nps.gov/pore/pdf/map...th_060101.pdf

I wanna hike this Saturday. And I do think Bolinas Ridge. Be at the trailhead at
11 am. Who wants to come? 8 or 10 miles. Carpool?

Start at the Intersection of Bolinas Fairfax Road and RidgeCrest BLVD, just up from the Larsens Lodge Site on Bolinas Fairfax Rd. Descend 1300 feet into Audubon canyon ranch. Range around, and then head back up the 1300 feet. (3-5
miles) The trail may be closed - do not dispair, we will go another way.

ONE WAY:

At Larsen's lodge we head back toward to trailhead, but go past the imfamous McKesson
Gulch trail (1.9 miles) if possible, to pass Cook's Bench and then to Willow
Camp trail (1.1 miles) we see astounding views here (3 miles total)..and short stroll to Cataract Falls.

THE NEW WAY: Take teh Bolinas Ridge Trail North to McCurdy (3.3) or Randall (4.4) on a level ridge. Then down 1300 feet to the Oema Valley Trail. Lets of neat-o stuff around here. And back up.

www.nps.gov/ggbr/acr_map.htm

www.sfgate.com/getoutside...aerial.html

www.marinwater.org/document...color.pdf

arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/map...ina.html

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Hike Sunday March 26

2007-03-24T16:04:19Z

To Muir Woods. Join us.

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Hike Sunday April 26

2007-03-20T20:28:32Z

We are going to Muir Woods. Join us!

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"Why are the Church Doors Closed?"

2007-02-26T04:16:00Z

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These Drop-in Centers, will start with providing some, Vocational Trades, Mentoring Programs and Arts and Crafts, Computer Training and other Valuable Resources/information.
In my opinion, this will only, become a living reality with God's help and the church, working with the community. By working together as one, we will make a tremendous impact in Our Households, Communities and Our Country.
Isaiah 58 & 61
"Chosen To Serve" Ministries Inc. is aware that, today's "Children and Families" are on a collision course, to destruction. With increased teen pregnancy and drug use, and at ages, much younger every year combined with, gang shootings and teen suicides, wouldn't you say that it's time for the Church, and our Communities . The drug dealers don't seem to have a time schedule, they are open 24 hours, Hey church, Let's wake-up and open our doors more than a few days a week.
Acts 2:38-47.
Consider This:
The children of today they, will be the leaders of tomorrow, with moore and more budget cuts in our schools programs, can we be assured our, children of today will be fully equipped, to lead the next generations? At the pace we are going, will they be prepared to be self sufficient, tax-paying citizens, and tomorrows, Leaders/Goverment ?
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POLL: What historical, geological, etc hikes are you itvhing for?

2007-02-21T23:43:38Z

thats a question!

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hIKE sUNDAY

2007-02-21T20:02:48Z

I would like to hike to Big Basin or Marin Redwoods this Sunday. My VW microbus is far from procured, so I would be heavenly granted if anyone wanted to drive to these places.

Anyone?

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Grant County Park Hike Saturday

2007-01-30T23:58:49Z

Grant County Park Hike Saturday

We plan a nice hike in Grant Park - exact trails to be discovered.

It is the beginning of turantulamating season, many, mnay up there - and also you will find a large abundance of feral pigs. We cant go in tghe summer, like Coe, its unbearably hot then. I would like to be there by about 11 AM.

Guides:

http://www.parkhere.org/portal/site/parks/menuitem.244564f66e6d425580b558bb35cda429/?path=%2Fv7%2FParks%20and%20Recreation%2C%20Department%20of%20%28DEP%29%2FFind%20a%20Park%2FJoseph%20D.%20Grant

http://mishalov.net/grant-park-21may04/grant-park.html

http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/grant.html

http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/3Dbayarea/html/Grant.htm

http://www.virtualparks.org/regions/santa-clara-text-list.html

http://www.durt.org/runs/grant.html

http://www.scvas.org/index.php?page=text&id=grantranch

http://tommangan.net/archives/cat__joseph_d_grant_county_park.html

http://www.trailcenter.org/newsletter/2000/spring2000/spring2000-01e.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/83545/joseph_d_grant_county_park_haunting.html

http://www.ghosthaunts.com/grant_house.html

http://www.nature.org/success/mthamilton.html

http://members.aol.com/Nap98/mthamilton.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hamilton_(California)

http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/3Dbayarea/html/MtHamilton.htm

Maps:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://boulter.com/geocaching/maps/maps/us/ca/GrantRanchCP.jpg&imgrefurl=http://boulter.com/geocaching/maps/&h=2748&w=1962&sz=816&hl=en&sig2=qZo5Wet2EfsG6zjs2Cr0RQ&start=4&tbnid=kBeE_wpJMQYspM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=107&ei=utm_RaHEF7rmJPLIvcQP&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGrant%2Bcounty%2Bpark%2Bmap%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

http://mishalov.net/grant-park-21may04/grant-park.html

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bikemaster.home.att.net/routes/grp_map.gif&imgrefurl=http://bikemaster.home.att.net/routes/grp_map.htm&h=500&w=499&sz=26&hl=en&sig2=zpslF1_YvXym5Mb7cC-nbQ&start=2&tbnid=Fmi2pFftJDXQFM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=130&ei=utm_RaHEF7rmJPLIvcQP&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGrant%2Bcounty%2Bpark%2Bmap%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FParks%20and%20Recreation%2C%20Department%20of%20%28DEP%29%2FGRANT%20PARK.pdf

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Big Basin! Hike Sunday the 28th!

2007-01-25T01:22:34Z

Big Basin!

http://www.bigbasin.org/trailmapmain.html

This time, not from the beach, but from the HQ and traversing the redwoods. More detail to come.

Interested? Be at the trailhead - The park HQ at 1130am. We can extend the hike if nec.

this popular trail: http://www.bigbasin.org/trailsberrycreekfalls.html

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Hikes this Spring

2007-01-23T22:49:12Z

Winter 2007 Hike Calendar

Weekend of January 28: Big basin – Sunset & sempervirons trails
February 4 – Grant County Park, Santa Clara
February 11 – Rock City, Diablo!
February 18 – Public Transportation!
February 25 – 4 Falls in Marin County!
March 4 – Open
March 10 – Murrieta falls (track and kill the sierra singles)
March 18 – Balancing Rock, Diablo!
March 25 – Henry Coe (Overnight?)
April 1 – Guess What! Mclure falls/Mckesson/Bolinas Ridge Scramble!

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This Sunday Hike - Mission Peak!

2007-01-23T18:45:42Z

That’s right, Mission Peak!

A 5.6 mile slide up Mission Peak (2517) , or 10.9 miles to it and to Monument
peak (2594) to the south! Round trip distances, of course. I am thinking of using the south Hidden valley trailhead, as described on they BaHiker page. How about a 10:30 trailhead meeting?

Map
http://boulter.com/geocaching/maps/maps/us/ca/Mission.jpg

Description
http://www.ebparks.org/resources/pdf/trails/mission_peak_map.pdf

other hikes
http://www.bahiker.com/eastbayhikes/missionpeak.html

Other data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Peak

PUBLIC TRANSIT
AC Transit #217 and #218
run from the Fremont BART Station
into Ohlone College seven days
a week until early evening. #217
also runs to Stanford Ave. and
Mission Blvd.
AC Transit #210 runs from Union
Landing Boulevard and Alvarado-Niles
Road in Union City into Ohlone
College seven days a week until
early evening. Call 817-1717 to
confirm lines and schedules.

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vasco caves

2007-01-23T18:45:15Z

Id like a visit....is there a diablo ascent from this park?

http://www.ebparks.org/parks/vasco.htm

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Hike Sanborn and Castle Rock Parks - Sunday January 14

2007-01-14T01:35:27Z

Hike Sanborn and Castle Rock Parks - Sunday January 14

The plan is to meet at the Sanborn park enterance at 11 AM. The one on Sanborn raod, off HWY 9, just up from Saratoga. Take the Sanborn trail to the skyline trail to Castle Rock State park - by crossing Skyline blvd. We could also visit indain and summit rocks just out of the way. We can immediatly visit castle rock and attempt a climb, or continue taking the Saratoga Gap trail to the falls, and all the way the the camping area - amnd taking the ridge trail back to see goat rock (which looks like the face of Nietzsche). This takes us back to castle rock and the return journey. Look like 11 miles. Its is the summit of the santa crux mtns. Its been cold as hell, so I imagine it will be cold as hell. prepare yourself.

I have gathered some toys for the hike at sanborn and castle rock parks tomorrow.

Maps:

http://boulter.com/geocaching/maps/maps/us/ca/CastleRock.jpg

http://boulter.com/geocaching/maps/

http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FParks%20and%20Recreation%2C%20Department%20of%20%28DEP%29%2Fattachments%2F332566sanborn%20both%20.pdf

http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/21299/files/crmap.pdf

Geology/San Andreas Fault

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1127/chapter6.pdf

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1127/chapter5.pdf

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1127/chapter7.pdf

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1127/

http://activetectonics.asu.edu/scm/morphometry/morphometry.html

http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/nov03/geomedia.html

Other people's hikes:

http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/sanborn.html

http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/castlerock.html

http://mishalov.net/castlerock-7nov04/

What people are saying!

Shivak said this last spring about this hike option:

"In the same vein, we could also plan to do a hike at Castle Rock or Sanborn, then hit Alice's restaurant or the Fogerty winery off Highway 35 on the way back."

And others from the same hike:

"I think a Castle Rock/Sanborn hike would be nice" Doug, Sunnyvale, CA

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Suday Hike in skyline-sanborn park!

2007-01-11T21:06:11Z

Hike in skyline-sanborn park! How about meeting at the Sanborn
trailhead at 11 AM?

The hike as detailed in 6 miles -- but we can go into Castle Rock and
make it a lot longer.

Park at the sanborne lot and take the sanborne trail to castle rock -
we can get on the saratoga gap trail - see the falls and head back to
the meeting point. Could be 11 miles.

Who's coming!

http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs/Parks%20and%20Recreation,%20Department%20of%20(DEP)/attachments/332566sanborn%20both%20.pdf

http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/21299/files/crmap.pdf

http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/sanborn.html

http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/castlerock.html

Adam

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4 seriously wacked hikes! (full moon, 3 waterfalls, waterfall bushwacking (2) and Berkeley Gardens and streams)

2007-01-11T00:34:17Z

1. Full moon hike weekend of Feb. 3 - Locale tbd

2. 3 waterfalls in Marin - Cataract/Carson and Cascade Canyon (20 miles)

3. Waterfull bushwack to More's Falls near Stinson Beach and bushwack to kent falls by muir woods.

4. Berkeley backyards?

Any takers for these hikes?

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Hike this coming Weekend

2007-01-11T00:31:33Z

two questions for YOU:

Saturday or Sunday?

and

where?

# Pescadero Creek
# Sam Taylor Park - Marin
# Oakland Hills
# Mission Peak
# Pt Richmond
# Henry Cowell
# Montara Mountian
# Ocean Beach
# Marin Headlands
# Skyline Sanborne/Castle Rock!

? what do you think?

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The hike is now Saturday!

2007-01-05T00:07:18Z

The sunday hike is saturday

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Hike Sunday january 7

2007-01-03T22:43:42Z

Hike Sunday january 7

Sunday - told to be sunny and a chill 57 degrees. The rains thursday will give us a soft or mushy layer of fallen pine and otherwise needles under the Canopy.

Will the Cataract Falls be rolling along? Let's find out. We can in Mount Tamalpias state park. inside the gate and the intersection of that main road and ridgecrest -- The Rock Spring Parking area -- for a nice loop that and maybe somethign else a little secret. How is 1030 at the trailhead?

Find the The Rock Spring Parking area at the bottom right of the map.

http://www.marinwater.org/documents/01.24.06_VstrMap_color.pdf

This is the plan, if yourve still got a turkey in your oven we can cut it short.
Hiking down to Alpine Lake (3.1m)

Over to Carson Falls (4m)

Over to Bon Tempe Lake (4)

The Rocky Ridge Trail over to Hidden Lake (2.2m)

Then back (2.9m)

Its only 16.2 Miles weve don this alot....but I can make it 8 miles.

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Sibley MaZes Dec. 30 Full (nearly) Moon Hike

2006-12-29T02:02:39Z

These are the words of the MugMan:

Sibley MaZes Dec. 30 Full (nearly) Moon Hike

Anybody into a midnight full moon hike the evening before New Year's eve? Destination would be the Oakland Hills, Sibley park, inside a volcano cone, walking the mazes. Yes mazes, labyrinths - well, maybe not quite Minotaurian in scope, but this is Oakland after all. We will need to find them in the dark, but they are there:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=elverton+drive,+oakland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=26.258506,59.238281&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=37.853039,-122.190306&spn=0.000796,0.002688&t=h&om=1

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=elverton+drive,+oakland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=26.258506,59.238281&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&z=19&ll=37.854701,-122.191591&spn=0.000796,0.002688&iwloc=addr

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=elverton+drive,+oakland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=26.258506,59.238281&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&z=19&ll=37.854701,-122.191591&spn=0.000796,0.002688&iwloc=addr

Start around 8PM.

"Spooky and Spiritual"
No one knows who carved mysterious mazes in East Bay park. You could call it the Volcanic Witch Project. High in the East Bay hills, above Oakland's urban hum and deep in the ruins of a volcano that spewed its top 10 million years ago, five mysterious mazes are carved into the earth and lined with stones. Some people call them spooky. Others call them mystically profound and leave letters to spirits in the shrines at their centers.
Few dare make fun of them -- they are afraid to.
``Witches and warlocks built them, that's what people around here say, and I never had any reason to doubt them,'' said Sara Lagasse, who lives at the entrance to the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, where the mazes lie like perpetually posed questions. ``It's kind of fun to go up there to see what people leave . . . but then . . .''
Lagasse stopped abruptly, glanced furtively up the trail toward the windswept hillsides. ``You know, they are a little scary if you think about it,'' she said quietly. ``I mean, who put them there and why?'' Good question.
The people who come to walk the mazes don't know. The East Bay Regional Park District doesn't know, at least not fully. But if you stand in the whistling breeze, with only the cries of red-tailed hawks wheeling overhead to break the silence, it is easy to see why someone would try to turn this park into a supernatural retreat. It is spooky, and contemplative, in a desolately attractive way -- and the twisting, rocky oddities seem to fit in like the lava-strewn soil itself.
The mazes are classic labyrinths, the kind meant for people to walk through slowly and come out feeling soulfully refreshed at the end. One was crafted in 1989 by Montclair sculptor and psychic Helena Mazzariello as ``a gift to the world'' -- but the others are a total mystery.
That's just fine with the folks who visit them. Not knowing feeds the mystique. ``I never knew what they were about, or even ran into anyone else who knew anything about them,'' said Megan Williams, 21, who bicycled 15 miles from Berkeley one recent afternoon to visit a maze, something she has done several times since 1993. ``All I know is they are beautiful, amazing, spiritual.
``I don't care if witches or Martians or whoever did them,'' she said after dropping a marble and a chunk of sandstone into the maze's middle and meditating there several minutes. ``Doesn't matter. ``Here, you're a million miles away from everything, it's wild, it's open . . . it's just . . . it's the most spiritual place on Earth to me,'' Williams said. ``I'm not sure why. It just is.''
Sibley's mazes -- all carved into the bottom of sheltered canyons -- are 50 to 100 feet across, as much as two feet high and based on medieval outlines used by mystics, Christians and New Agers alike.
The design is simple: A single pathway coiling toward the center is etched into the dirt and lined with rocks, and a stone pile, arranged like a crude shrine, waits in the middle. Three of the mazes are round, one is heart-shaped, and the fifth is actually a cluster of a half-dozen tiny ones. Some in the cluster are whimsical, such as one crafted into a smiley face, and others are ciphers.
The builders clearly took their cue from the ancients who started all things labyrinthine in Crete 3,200 years ago; check out Cretan coins in an encyclopedia, and you'll see they match. The same model was replicated from France's Chartres Cathedral in 1220 -- monks crawled it to purge themselves of demons -- to San Francisco's Grace Cathedral in 1992.
Nobody has been witnessed crawling at the Sibley mazes, but people are often seen strolling the winding pathways and kneeling to leave personal items in the center -- some of it very personal.
A spot check of the shrines last week revealed two sticks whittled into beaded magic wands, square rocks scratched with bizarre symbols, animal bones, BART and circus tickets, melted and unmelted candles and a bone pipe stuffed with feathers. There were also rings and bracelets, $5 in international coins and bills, dozens of shiny, multicolored stones, and two fake diamonds.
And then there were the half-dozen love letters and notes, left as though the shrines somehow doubled as mailboxes to gods unknown.
``Spirits hear my pleas for my massage practice to double, instantly . . . steadily so I can pay for a nice, safe home,'' beseeched a letter at the center of the biggest maze, a circular sprawl in an old quarry pit at the foot of a 300-foot cliff. ``O Great Ones, send fire down to destroy the one who troubles me,'' demanded another note at the slightly smaller, heart-shaped maze in another quarry pit a half-mile away. The note was scrawled on red- splattered cloth and stuck beneath a blotch of melted wax.
No rules are posted, so people guess at what they might be. There's a lot of talk about how it's probably important not to offend the spirits, or sprites, or gods, or whatever.
``I have no idea what you're supposed to do, but I get the impression you're not supposed to step over the maze walls,'' Laura Hinton of Martinez said after threading through one for the first time. ``I was surprised -- it was soothing. I've had a migraine for two days, and as soon as I walked out of the maze it disappeared. So I guess I followed the rule correctly, whatever it is.'' As far as park workers can recall, the mazes have been in Sibley for at least a decade. Nobody -- not even Mazzariello -- knows who tends them or why so many are there.
Several mazes also have little stone-pile markers or iron sculptures positioned dozens of feet from their edges, eerily evoking those in the film ``The Blair Witch Project.''
``I've been coming out here a long time and I've seen people do some pretty freaky stuff in these mazes,'' said Peter Gillette, 40, of Berkeley, as he walked toward one of the labyrinths. ``I've seen strange birthday parties, solstice ceremonies in the moonlight, and once there was a bunch of people in one of them waving their hands in the air and making mighty sounds --you know, gobbledygook. Weird stuff.''
Whether it was good or bad witches, artistic aliens, mainstream religious types or chakra-loving New Agers who cut the mazes, it's clear they picked their spot carefully.
Sibley is a cluster of historic lava vents, including the Round Top volcano, which bubbled up 10 million years ago when Moraga was beachfront to a huge inland sea. Being the nexus of a bunch of formerly hot holes pointing to the planet's core, it's the sort of place psychics say has a lot of cosmic power.
From the park entrance, it is a mile-long hike through sun-baked, laurel-tree studded hills to the most obvious maze, Mazzariello's big one at the bottom of the 300-foot cliff. You have to wind another mile through similar trails to find the others; two are easy to spot but the remaining two are tricky.
Mazzariello said she built the maze ``because it was such a beautiful spot and it felt like it had an energy to it of goodness and peace.''
That spirit has even managed to grow on park honchos. Officially, the mazes should have never been allowed: It's against park rules to mess with the landscape, let alone make things there. But over the years the mazes became stony proof that rules are meant to be bent now and then.
``A lot of people like them,'' said Ned MacKay, district spokesman. ``We don't encourage building structures in our parks, and we don't know who's doing all of them, but they're not harming anything. So we leave them.
``It would be nice to know who built them, though,'' he said. ``They're a real mystery.''

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Bay Area Waterfalls & Bushwackers

2006-12-23T03:36:29Z

Changes the destniy of the tribe becasue were were competing in a general category as another tribe.

this is the place for crazy adventures!

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Hike December 24 - Cascade Canyon Fairfax - Secret Waterfalls and secret Trails! secret Trails! you never seen before buster brown!

2006-12-23T00:02:19Z

Hike December 24 - Cascade Canyon Fairfax - Secret Waterfalls and
secret Trails you never seen before buster brown!

On the 24th im getting ride and my car seems full and were leaving
Glen Park at 930 am to go to CAscade Canyon in fairfax at around
1030.. send me an email if you wanna do this glorious thing with us.

happier hiking happens with healthy humor and hallucinations

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Hike Sunday the 3rd - 13 miles - Berkeley

2006-12-01T20:28:55Z

Hopping down the bunny trail. A public transportation hike, some woods and some city.

Berkeley Hills. Meet at the coffee shop just on the left of peets coffee - sorry forget the name - on the Berkeley BART Plaza. We will ascent the claremeont canyon into Sibley Volcanic, thorugh the huckleberry, redwood and Jaqiun Miller park and through the diaomnd park to Lake Merrit station.

about 13 miles. We can cut it short to 7.5 miles and end at rockridge station if dire circumstances previal.

Meet at 12:25 PM. Sunset at4:51 PM. a 3 mile-per-hour pace will get us there at sunset. so well be walking in the dark. maybe cut it short .

Ideas?

Maybe next weekend, try the muir woods to mill valley and back part 2 - thats sunday the 10th - 20 miles!

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Winter hikes..im asking for ideas.

2006-11-28T21:07:39Z

Each hsunday this winter we will havea winter hike. this weekend, were doing the dunday hike on saturday night, in the mountian home area.

Next sunday the 10th is still opne, any ideas. well go rain or shine.

last week's hike.......

it was rain. it was cold. it was blowing wind. it was reality. it was beautiful. We went to Muir's Fern woods and hiked up to the mountain home. What I and everyone felt was Beauty and a slight terror! The trudging troglodytes cursed as much as the chattering chuds were brisk walkers with hoods pressed hard over each owns head and didn't see the post reading to turn left. I stood on top of the mountain with rain pouring down my checks until my face was numb. This, my second winter storm I've been caught in – somewhat unexpectedly. The loudness of it all took hold of me standing alone under the darkening grimace of a sky. It was just the rain. It was blinding, and that blinding was then muffled by the hoods. The other storm, just before the storm, I found it trumpeted its silence as inside a cathedral. Those granite stones exploding miles on every side of me, the night was quiet, with no wind, insects or water. Perfectly still.

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tomoales point 10-20-06 hike

2006-10-19T23:16:26Z

The Tomales Point Trailhead is at the end of Pierce Point Road, 40 minute driving time from Bear Valley.

I would like to begin the hike at 11am. This means leaving at 9 am.

carpool?

http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/tomales.html

http://www.nps.gov/pore/pdf/trailsn.pdf

http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/470/files/tomalesbay.pdf

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cabin rental in Mendocino near Lost Coast (Nov. 3 -5).

2006-10-03T05:52:12Z

Hi folks -- a few of us have rented a cabin up in Mendocino County to hike some of the Lost Coast trail or variations of it. We don't have a hike a routed out yet but it will include King's Peak and the hike won't be less than 10 miles.

The cabin has a kitchen, two rooms, 3 beds, with pleny of floor space. It is $99 per night total. So far we have 3, maybe 4 people going. Anyone else interested?

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Hike Sept 9 or 10

2006-08-30T16:44:31Z

Getting out of town again. I a, thinking of The diablo 5 peak hike.

What do you think?

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Urban Hike #4, Sunday August 27

2006-08-25T20:35:11Z

Urban Hike #4, Sunday August 27

A few people bailed at the last minute without even calling the last time for this one -- Lets try another one: again. Same deal. Except on a Sunday.

I have some Ideas Ill post shortly - let me know if you are intersted. I am thinking of ending the Hike at a Jub Band festival in Mclaren Park.

Adam
415-971-2640

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Sunday Hike - the 27th

2006-08-24T23:56:40Z

open?

any ideas from around the bay area -- an urban. mountian, beachy, woodie hike? whatever - suggest something and lets do it.

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Please no sales on the topics

2006-08-08T04:11:20Z

That is a listing.

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FOR SALE GREGORY ADVENT (medium) AND REI PEAK UL POLES LIKE NEW

2006-08-04T15:24:36Z

Pack used only two times but I have two so I am selling this one. It is in perfect condition not dirty to tears all seams intact etc... plus I will gove you the receipts so you can use the warranty.

Poles used once and are in perfect condition. Poles do not have baskets or wrist straps. I cut them off to prevent injury to both myself and the poles and of course to loose a bit of weight.

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Big Basin Aug. 6

2006-07-27T18:02:23Z

Big Basin Aug. 6

Im going. Some others are going. you can come too.

details , what details? If you want to hike with me you will start early and finish late.

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Big Basin Aug. 5 hike

2006-07-27T18:02:03Z

Big Basin Aug. 5

Im going. Some others are going. you can come too.

details , what details? If you want to hike with me you will start early and finish late.

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MAD RAMPAGE hike this weekend - Sunday the 23rd

2006-07-18T23:06:59Z

MAD RAMPAGE hike this weekend - Sunday the 23rd

Everybody,

The training is continuing. Last Sunday we hiked 15.2 miles from Bolinas ridge in the Mt Tam Watershed through Olema valley in the GGNRA to Olema trail on the Pt Reyes National Seashore.

And back - that was the killer.

This weekend. Another big hike. All day - Id like to start earlier this time.

I’ve two options to offer you.

Option Orangutan: A ramble over Mt Diablo from Curry through the caves area to the peak and back - if that’s not enough lets bag the second peak. Lets look and see what we can do.

Option Dracula: A forested journey though Big Basin. Id liketo start at the sea - over Berry creek falls - up to the summit, and back. Many trails to ramble through here.

Total could be 12-16 miles. Elevation gains up to 2000 feet at big basin and 3000 feet in Mt Diablo.

Ok, sing up here.

Adam

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Hike Sunday July 16! Not-so-Mad Bolinas Ridge not-so-scramble (changed date)

2006-07-06T18:44:44Z

Hike Sunday July 16! Not-so-Mad Bolinas Ridge not-so-scramble (changed date)

Hikes are back -- Bolinas Ridge/Audubon Canyon

MAP: www.nps.gov/pore/pdf/map...th_060101.pdf

I wanna hike this Saturday. And I do think Bolinas Ridge. Be at the trailhead at
11 am. Who wants to come? 8 or 10 miles. Carpool?

Start at the Intersection of Bolinas Fairfax Road and RidgeCrest BLVD, just up from the Larsens Lodge Site on Bolinas Fairfax Rd. Descend 1300 feet into Audubon canyon ranch. Range around, and then head back up the 1300 feet. (3-5
miles) The trail may be closed - do not dispair, we will go another way.

ONE WAY:

At Larsen's lodge we head back toward to trailhead, but go past the imfamous McKesson
Gulch trail (1.9 miles) if possible, to pass Cook's Bench and then to Willow
Camp trail (1.1 miles) we see astounding views here (3 miles total)..and short stroll to Cataract Falls.

THE NEW WAY: Take teh Bolinas Ridge Trail North to McCurdy (3.3) or Randall (4.4) on a level ridge. Then down 1300 feet to the Oema Valley Trail. Lets of neat-o stuff around here. And back up.

www.nps.gov/ggbr/acr_map.htm

www.sfgate.com/getoutside...aerial.html

www.marinwater.org/document...color.pdf

arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/map...ina.html

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Hike Saturday the 8th ! Not-so-Mad Bolinas Ridge not-so-scramble

2006-07-06T17:26:42Z

Hike Saturday the 8th! Not-so-Mad Bolinas Ridge not-so-scramble

Hikes are back -- Bolinas Ridge/Audubon Canyon

MAP: http://www.nps.gov/pore/pdf/map_trailssouth_060101.pdf

I wanna hike this Saturday. And I do think Bolinas Ridge. Be at the trailhead at
11 am. Who wants to come? 8 or 10 miles. Carpool?

Start at the Intersection of Bolinas Fairfax Road and RidgeCrest BLVD, just up from the Larsens Lodge Site on Bolinas Fairfax Rd. Descend 1300 feet into Audubon canyon ranch. Range around, and then head back up the 1300 feet. (3-5
miles) The trail may be closed - do not dispair, we will go another way.

ONE WAY:

At Larsen's lodge we head back toward to trailhead, but go past the imfamous McKesson
Gulch trail (1.9 miles) if possible, to pass Cook's Bench and then to Willow
Camp trail (1.1 miles) we see astounding views here (3 miles total)..and short stroll to Cataract Falls.

THE NEW WAY: Take teh Bolinas Ridge Trail North to McCurdy (3.3) or Randall (4.4) on a level ridge. Then down 1300 feet to the Oema Valley Trail. Lets of neat-o stuff around here. And back up.

www.nps.gov/ggbr/acr_map.htm

www.sfgate.com/getoutside...aerial.html

www.marinwater.org/document...color.pdf

arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/map...ina.html
--
"If the future isn't bright, at least it's colourful."
- Blixa

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June 25 Urban Hike 2006 part 2

2006-06-16T23:50:22Z

June 25 Urban Hike 2006 part 2

Its on June 25...Instead. Sunday

and make it 1045, depart at 11.

The last was just great. We hit the downtown hills, grandview and gg heights. ended at west portal. We crashed the GG Heights block party and ate steak and drank fine wine from La Mancha.

THIS time....Liberty Heights, Twin Peaks, Glen Canyon, and well slip in Davison if we have tiame.

Meet at Gaudi, 2944 16th St (at Capp) at 1045 am and depart at 11 am.

Call me if you need more details

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This week's hike is on Saturday

2006-05-09T23:43:43Z

This week's hike is on Saturday

and Im really going this time -- Le wants go swimming in Bass Lake - any Bikini's wanna go?

Otherwise its Bolinas Ridge and Muir beach....and all that.

Who?

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hike this weekend

2006-05-04T23:20:58Z

There was no group hike this weekend since no one with a car offered to drive.

This week, if I do not go to a super-massive bike ride in Santa Cruz, Ill hike. Back to Sunol? Big Basin?

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Sunday April 30 Hike - Black Diamond mines or Little Yosemite?

2006-04-27T18:09:06Z

80 degrees in the east bay this sunday.

http://www.ebparks.org/parks/black.htm
http://www.bahiker.com/eastbayhikes/bdm.html
http://www.coloniapress.com/blackdiamond.html
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lifeamgood.com/01aprgreenhills.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lifeamgood.com/01aprblack.htm&h=144&w=213&sz=10&tbnid=HUWwkoHWldu62M:&tbnh=68&tbnw=101&hl=en&ei=HQhRRKZQkYQk_t690w0&sig2=xQJ1TYNzmngQTRLDe5_FNg&start=40&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblack%2Bdiamond%2Bmines%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

Little Yosemite
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/23/SPGAPAFUCS1.DTL
http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/morgue/2000/2000_03_31.hiksdbr31.html
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/sunol.htm#Map

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Carpools for SUnday to Henry Cowell

2006-04-22T03:19:32Z

Can anyone help out with carpools from SF. I know a few poeple that do not drive that would liketo go.

this may iclude me.

Adam

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Henry Cowell Hike Sunday 23rd..but maybe the 16th also

2006-04-17T22:14:15Z

Henry Cowell Hike Sunday 23rd..but maybe the 16th also

A friend of mine is leading a hike to Henry Cowell Sunday. 50-50 that I will be there. hit me up for details at phippsie@gmail.com.

Fall Creek (the less known UNIT of Henry Cowell)

TIME: Sunday April 23. 11 am.
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MEET: at the Bennett Creek trail head.

HIKE: The Fall Creek featured 6.8 mile loop hike is moderate, with
about 1000 feet in elevation change. For further detail on hike

http://bahiker.com/southbayhikes/fallcreek.html

CARPOOL: from Los Gatos, we will meet at the Northside park and ride
lot at 10 am, leave at 10:15. (Northside lot is on the northside of

Saratoga Ave between University Ave and North Santa Cruz Ave.) more
info on park and ride can be found here:
http://rideshare.511.org/park_lots/#santaclara

HOW TO GET THERE:
From CA 17 in Santa Clara County, drive southwest. In Scotts Valley,
exit Mount Hermon Road. Cross 17 and turn right at the light to Mt
Harmon Rd. Drive northwest on Mount Hermon Road about
3.5 miles.
When Mount Hermon Road ends at Graham Hill Road, turn right. After
just 0.1 mile, Graham Hill Road ends at a traffic light at CA 9 in
Felton. Continue straight across 9 to Felton Empire Road. Drive

about 0.6 mile on Felton Empire Road, and turn right into the poorly
signed trailhead.

From highway 1 in Santa Cruz, take highway 9 north for 7.5 miles to
Felton Empire Rd. Turn left and continue as above.

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Carrizo Plain

2006-04-10T19:22:25Z

Camping this weekend at Carrizo. This is where the San Andreas Fault is best exposed. http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/carrizo/

a hike for the 100th anniversary of SF's quake.

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The Lush Greenery of Marin : An enchanting hike into the Emerald Saturday or Sunday MArch 11-12 (TBD)

2006-03-11T20:24:21Z

The Lush Greenery of Marin : An Enchanting Hike into the Emerald Saturday or Sunday MArch 11-12 (TBD)

A lovely hike in Marin County to see some waterfalls. About 4- 5 miles. I hurt my toes, so I will take it easy. Bolinas Rdige, second assay coming in a couple weeks!

Rain or Shine. Forecast calls for rain.

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Hike all around Bolinas Ridge

2006-01-17T23:12:45Z

That Murietta Falls hike was the most difficult day hike ive done.
Lets continue.

I was thinking of something very special - nothing steep like this
past week (3000 foot gain and not as steep) -- a few secretive trails
heading up and down bolinas ridge surrounding the Audubon Canyon
Ranch. Funky animals and plants. There may still be indians hanging
out there.

There are no references to this hike that I can find.
14-16 miles.
3100 foot elevation gain.
So bery, bery early.
The egrets will be nesting.

starting from Mckennan Gulch Trailhead on Rt1 just North of Stinson
Beach - 1700 feet up to the Coatal trail, turn left to intersect
Bolinas-Fairfax Road. (3.6 Miles)

(OR start at Larsens Lodge Site on Bolinas Fairfax Rd. if we are all
suckers, cutting 7 miles off the hike and making it a bunny hike)
Desend 1300 feet into audubod canyon ranch. range around, then head
back up the 1300 feet. (3-5 miles)

At Larsens lodge we head back toward to trailhead, but go past the
Mckesson Gulch trail (1.9 miles) if possible, to pass Cook's Bench and
then to Willow Camp trail (1.1 miles) we see astonding views here (3
miles total)

...a 2.5 mile decent back to the trailhead. (4.4 miles) a 1800 foot
decent.

the trailhead:

McKennan Gulch: Take Hwy1 west from Hwy 101. Drive through Stinson
Beach town and go 1.5 miles north on Hwy 1 with Bolinas Lagoon on your
left. After about 1/2 mile past the Stinson School, start looking for
an orange cone by a grove of pine trees on the right (orange cone not
available for our hike) . Pull in and park.

http://www.mtbr.com/trails/California-BayArea/WillowCamp.html

http://www.egret.org/bouverie.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/destinations/u_s_region\
s/west/northern_california/bay_area/2560318.htm

http://www.nps.gov/ggbr/acr_map.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/getoutside/1996/may/lagoonaerial.html

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MLK Monday Hike Rain or Shine: Murietta Falls

2006-01-12T19:19:37Z

MLK Monday Hike Rain or Shine: Murietta Falls

The Tallest falls in the bay area is 100 feet.

11 miles and 4400 feet elevation gain.

Please join in on this hike and join or start a carpool.
It a drive, so we will have to start early

http://www.bahiker.com/eastbayhikes/delvalle.html

http://www.scaruffi.com/travel/sfohike.html#mur

http://kevingong.com/Hiking/MuriettaFalls.html

http://tommangan.net/archives/cat_hiking_murietta_falls.html

http://www.bahiker.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=10&topic=24

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Waretrfall hike Sunday 8th - DETAILS

2006-01-05T22:23:14Z

Waretrfall hike Sunday 8th - DETAILS

Yes, I did find these secret falls, but all are attached to quarter mile trails,
and Ok, Im not so sure EXACTLY where they are ? I feel like a good hike. Lets
hit Carson falls: http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/carsonfalls.html

http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca_carson.html

The trailhead is indicated on this Map:
http://www.waterfallswest.com/maps/map_carson.jpg

Lets meet here at 11Am Sunday.

Lets set up carpools

We can also do another couple waterfalls in the area if we have time..Ill have
the maps with me.

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Waretrfall hike Sunday 8th

2006-01-05T18:55:51Z

Waretrfall hike Sunday 8th

the foecast calls for 60 degrees and sun. I would like to see soem
waterfalls on Tam, or the Secret one in Harry A. Barbier Memorial Park
next to China Camp (
http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/466/files/ChinaCampBrochure.pdf ), or
the Kent Valley falls
(http://www.maxtrails.com/trails/1001225_Owl_Trail_California.html)

Lets meet in the city at 10, and get to the trailhead at 11 in Marin.

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Hike/Backpack 26-27-28

2005-12-14T21:51:54Z

any ideas?

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Uvas Canyon Saturday Dec 10

2005-12-01T22:27:54Z

Uvas Canyon Saturday Dec 10

Its a trek - but we can see 3 waterfalls there.

Is anyone willingto get up a little early and drive down to San JO?

http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/uvas.html

http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FParks%20and%20Recreation%2C%20Departmen
t%20of%20%28DEP%29%2Fattachments%2F241873UvasCanyonWaterfallGuide.pdf

3. Uvas Canyon Park?s Falls

Uvas Canyon County Park is a little slice of waterfall heaven on the
east side
of the Santa Cruz Mountains. You can walk the one-mile Waterfall Loop
Trail and
see Black Rock Falls and several smaller cascades on Swanson Creek, or
you can
add on an eighth-mile side trip to see Basin Falls and Upper Falls. If
you?re
in the mood to stretch your legs, you can make a larger loop out to Alec
Canyon,
then take the uphill trail a half-mile to Triple Falls on Alec Creek.

Start your trip at the Black Oak Group Picnic Area. Head straight (not
uphill on
the dirt road) to connect to the short loop trail in the canyon. Cross
Swanson
Creek on a footbridge, then bear right at the fork, and head directly
for Black
Rock Falls, a quarter-mile away. You?ll find it on your right, pouring
30 feet
down a side canyon over ?you guessed it?black rock.

Take a few pictures, then continue back in the canyon, heading for Basin
Falls
(20 feet tall, surrounded by moss-covered rocks and making a lovely
S-curve at
it carves its way downcanyon) and Upper Falls (15 feet tall with a
fallen tree
in front).

In the rainy season, water pours down Uvas Canyon?s walls from all
sides,
creating a happy noise. The canyon is filled with oaks, laurels, and
Douglas
firs, all thriving in the wet environment around Swanson Creek.

To see Triple Falls, continue up Swanson Creek and follow the winding
Contour
Trail to Alec Canyon. This adds 2.5 miles and a brief ascent to your
mileage.
Where Contour Trail meets up with Alec Canyon Fire Road, turn right and
hike a
half-mile. (You?ll pass Manzanita Point, which offers far-reaching views
on
clear days.) Turn right again on the spur trail to Triple Falls. True to
its
name, Triple Falls is a series of three cascades, totalling 40 feet in
height.

Trip notes: For more information contact Uvas Canyon County Park,
408/779-9232.

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a Hike Saturday Dec. 10...

2005-12-01T20:39:18Z

Ill go hiking this day...any requests?

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Hikes this weekend

2005-11-22T19:57:32Z

Saturday : Purisma creek or nearby

Sunday: Berkeley hillls

any other ideas?

Who wats to go?

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extreme day hiking...

2005-11-09T02:44:51Z

Hi,

Thanks for having me on this tribe and apologies in advance for the cross posting.

For those of you who are insane enough to like extremely long day hiking, please check out my new tribe at Extreme day hikers. Please feel free to shoot me a message with suggestions.

Looking forward to meeting some of you folks on the trail!

Thanks,
Parisa

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Hike Sunday? ~!Waterfalls!~~!

2005-11-09T00:59:26Z

What do you think - the waterfalls are overflowing - and I know some nice ones around Tam - If not a hike - how about a drive around to see them?

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Hike Sunday - Bass Lake Swim!

2005-09-25T01:51:07Z

Hike Sunday - Bass Lake Swim!

whos up?

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Hike Saturday 30th

2005-07-27T18:39:38Z

Hike Saturday Tomales Point.

http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/tomalespt.html

Mission 9Am, trailhead 1030

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Beautiful redwoods hiking! July 23 -- Instead of Easy backpacking

2005-07-21T22:31:42Z

Let's Get an early start - can me meet in the City at 9AM?
Can we meet at 25 Liberty in SF?

August 12-13, I will be doing an overnight trek into the woods - lets plan for
that!

I would also like to do a hike on Sunday If anyone is available, or SOBER?

Why do I ask SOBER, because there is a big party saturday night at 646 Green St
(between Powell and Columbus) that we are all invited to.

Here are the details for Armstrong and Austin Creek

A day hike in Armstrong Redwoods to visit a very old tree in Sonoma County on
the Russian River and backpacking in the neighboring Austin State park.

http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_result?newaddr=25+Liberty&taddr=&csz=SF%2C+ca&country=u\
s&tcsz=Guerneville%2C+CA&tcountry=us

http://search.parks.ca.gov/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=85&EXTRA_ARG=&CFGNAME=MssFi\
nd%2Ecfg&host_id=42&page_id=2623744&query=armstrong&hiword=armstrong+
http://search.parks.ca.gov/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=85&EXTRA_ARG=&CFGNAME=MssFi\
nd%2Ecfg&host_id=42&page_id=2754816&query=armstrong&hiword=armstrong+

http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/armstrong.html
http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/austincreek.html

http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/450/files/Armstrong_Brochure2005.pdf

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Easy backpacking trip July 23-24

2005-07-21T22:30:28Z

Easy backpacking trip July 23-24

Join me on an easy backpacking July 23 -24 to Some Redwoods. I have two ideas, one North and one South of SF…please let me know if you would like to come on this trip, I will initiate some carpools – please specify if you would be willing to run a carpool, or would need to get a ride, and specify which park you would like to visit

Adam

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Butano State Park – To the trail camp near the abandoned air strip. Looks like an easy 5 mile hike in, so plenty of time to play and relax amongst the redwoods, alder and oak.

www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp
www.bahiker.com/southbayhi...butano.html

OR

A day hike in Armstrong Redwoods to visit a very old tree in Sonoma County on the Russian River and backpacking in the neighboring Austin State park.

www.bahiker.com/northbayhi...austincreek.html
www.parks.ca.gov/
www.bahiker.com/northbayhi...austincreek.html

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Hike Saturday the 9th

2005-07-07T17:11:49Z

Hike from Stinson to pantoll on Tam. Meet in the City, Berkeley and at the trailhead at about 10:30AM.

MAtt Davis to PAntoll, then Steep Ravine back down to Sitnson.

any takers?

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Backpacker/Hiker Meeting June 29 Samovar Tea Lounge

2005-06-28T23:29:07Z

Backpacker/Hiker Meeting Wednesday June 29 Samovar Tea Lounge

I am meeting some hikers and backpackers to talk about the business Wednesday June 29 at 8:15 PM at Samovar Tea Lounge...Please come if you want to meet some more backpackers and hikers and look at ideas for the coming year.

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Backpacker/Hiker Meeting June 24 Lucky 13

2005-06-27T23:02:22Z

Backpacker/Hiker Meeting June 24 Lucky 13

I am meeting some hikers and backpackers to talk about the business Friday June 24 at 7:30 PM at Lucky 13...Please come if you want to meet some more backpackers and hikers and look at ideas for the coming year.

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Hike Saturday the 25th

2005-06-21T21:17:00Z

Hikers,

I am here today to propose hiking, swimming, birding, mysterious plant and
animal watching and fishing in the San Francisco Bay Delta. Locations
being the
Brannan Island SRA and Grizzly Island and we can access with a nice drive
through the swampies in Suisun City or from the south swampies of Antioch
through and through Rio Vista.

This will be a fun adventure for sure.
any suggestion on a date?

http://iep.water.ca.gov/suisun/facts/
http://www.suisunwildlife.org/grizzly.html
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=487
http://www.bahiker.com/eastbayhikes/grizzly.html

I don't have a pole - who's got a fishing pole? or a gun.

Adam

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Hike cascade canyon Saturday

2005-06-10T19:22:22Z

Hello hikers,

I am planning yet again another hike to Cascade Canyon!

It just rained, and I want to hike the 3 miles up the cascade to its source.

*We can meet at Fairfax Coffee Roasters, 4 Bolinas Road 415/256-1373,
they have FAIR TRADE coffee at 11am.

MAP:
maps.yahoo.com/maps_result

Here is the description of the place. We will likely take a different trailhead,
since the one mentioned has NO parking, i know one with three spaces. This is
why I want to meet at the coffee place.

The hike map looks like this, i will elaborate later :

www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/PK...n/os/pdf/CascadeCanyonWeb.pdf

the descriptions:

www.bahiker.com/northbayhi...cascade.html

www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/white.html

adam@zentelligent.com

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Hike Saturday 4th

2005-06-02T22:21:46Z

Ive got a great hike with some overnight options.

The Hike: Montara mountain.
Time: Early
The overnight: We may camp overnight nera the spot on the beach - more
on that as it comes in.

Who wants to come? I have a couple drivers, who else wants to drive,
or needs a ride?

Montara:
http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/mcneeranch.html

http://ladesai.home.att.net/everestbay/hmont.htm

http://plants.montara.com/maps.html

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Backpacking season!

2005-05-24T17:22:56Z

Backpacking season!

Lost coast memorial day, getting set up now, still need more hikers.

Plumas county in June

and....?

who wants to do some trekking?

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Saturday Hike - May 7

2005-05-02T17:06:54Z

Sunol wilderness: thats down 680, down Calveras rd, the Rose peak hike is 10-miles one way, so maybe fuck that one.

What do you think?

I am trying to set up some car pools for people, so if you are willing to drive, let me know.

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Hike Saturday May 7

2005-04-26T18:39:48Z

I am plannig a hike for Saturday May 7. I do not know where yet...any suggestions?

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Hike Saturday the 9th

2005-04-05T18:38:20Z

Hello hikers,

I am planning yet again another hike to Cascade Canyon!

*If you are not on this trip, let me know and ill remove you from the list.

carpools will be formed!

*We will be meeting at Fairfax Coffee Roasters, 4 Bolinas Road 415/256-1373,
they have FAIR TRADE coffee at 11am.

MAP:
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=XpqKX.p_0Tqyz5Jg8Q7dGbSWXS3640k-&csz=94930&country=us&cat=&trf=0

Here is the description of the place. We will likely take a different trailhead,
since the one mentioned has NO parking, i know one with three spaces. This is
why I want to meet at the coffee place.

The hike map looks like this, i will elaborate later :

http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/PK/Main/os/pdf/CascadeCanyonWeb.pdf

the descriptions:

http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/cascade.html

http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/white.html

Ask me any questions
a couple of you have not met me, so here is a picture to identify me with.

Adam 824-9912
adam@zentelligent.com

--
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"This world is totally FUGAZI"
Fouled Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In

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day Hike on the 19th

2005-03-18T19:49:53Z

Im planning a day Hike on the 19th. I wanted to backpack, but i did not get enough interest. but a day hike is getting a lot.

Saturday the 19th: place to be determined
meet at 10 AM.
end at dusk

the next day at 7:10 am the 20th is the Vernal equinox.
join us

bring your freinds.

interested?

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Outdoors for the equinox

2005-03-09T20:15:32Z

I would like to camp or sport of some kind for the equinox weekend - thats the 19th and twentieth..

anyone want to join me?

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Good Friday

2005-03-01T21:38:28Z

Looking past March 5 – I have Good Friday off job and seems no-one else does – but I f you do, I am forming a camping party leaving Friday AM and returning Saturday afternoon, and I would enjoy company, and I am tons of fun in the woods so come on.

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Easter weekend outdoors

2005-03-01T21:37:48Z

easter is coming just after the equinox, i will have a thre day weekend, i get good friday off jobbie, and im thinking about heading for backpacking, kyaking or ...

any ideas?

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