Santa Teresa County Park
Feb. 11th, 2024 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goobergunchI had already hiked 1.1 miles of the Santa Teresa County Park ridge trail section back in 2018 en route to Coyote Peak (1155'), so I decided to start today's outing from San Vicente Avenue so that I'd be ascending at the start and descending at the end. (I always find hikes that do the reverse obnoxious.) Better yet, I could make a loop of it—ascending via Stile Ranch Trail, the Ridge Trail route, following the Mine Trail to the Rocky Ridge Trail junction, and then descending via the much more direct Fortini Trail. It all made for a good start to a nice sunny day. Bonus: the trail wasn't that muddy, except where it paralleled Santa Teresa Creek.
With a bunch of energy left over, I kept going beyond my parking spot to the Calero Creek Trail. This was less enjoyable and mostly flat, with one rather exciting creek crossing. I eventually turned around at Harry Road, where the trail becomes a wide multi-use paved experience. Better to come back to that with sneakers.
Total new Ridge Trail mileage today: 3.2. Actual mileage today: 5.5.
With a bunch of energy left over, I kept going beyond my parking spot to the Calero Creek Trail. This was less enjoyable and mostly flat, with one rather exciting creek crossing. I eventually turned around at Harry Road, where the trail becomes a wide multi-use paved experience. Better to come back to that with sneakers.
Total new Ridge Trail mileage today: 3.2. Actual mileage today: 5.5.
