Villages Hiking Club, San Jose, CA
Our mission is to promote an active and healthy lifestyle through hiking.
On 11-June-2024 Gordon Carbonetti & Bob Bogdanoff saw some orange markers for the Upper Meadow trail replacement. This morning an outline of the new trail had been mowed. It looks like the seven years of the hill lands committee work is coming to fruition.
On 10-June-2024 a group of club members walked our golf course.
Memorial Day residents who came to walking the golf course on a holiday!
On 29-May-2024 eleven members participated. A snake greeted us at the start & we had to sanitize our boots upon entering. Great views of Silicon Valley & late spring flowers.
On 7-May2024 thru 9-May-2024 a group of members and their guests traveled to Nevada City for the spring outing. They participated in hiking and sightseeing.
On 6-May-2024 a group walked our golf course.
On May 1, 2024 John Perrin led 13 brave folks that set out for a 4 mile (r/t) hike from the Coyote Creek Visitor Center near Anderson Lake to the Santa Clara County Model Aircraft Skypark. As luck would have it, an aircraft operator named Matt was there practicing with his 24 lb., 10 hp plane. (He is in the foreground in the picture below). He answered many questions from our group and entertained us with various flying stunts. On the way back to the Visitor Center we all had to paused to let a local cross our trail – a 20-foot long rattlesnake! Well, maybe it was 2 feet but he got our attention. At the end of the hike, most of the group had very satisfying sandwiches at Mr. Pickles near the “Target” shopping center by Hwy 101.
On 23-Apr-2024 Gordon Carbonetti led a great group of 17 hikers ventured out to hike Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve. Views were expansive and beautiful. Afterward, a lunch was enjoyed at Flames Coffee Shop.
On 22-Apr-2024 a group of 17 people walked the golf course. The group enjoyed sunny weather.
On 17-Apr-2024 It was fun showing the gang through the Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad engine house! Jim Koski has been a volunteer there since 2001 and try to run one half-day (3 hour) shift a month. The railroad runs daily when kids are out for summer vacation, and on weekends the rest of the year.
