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Cheryl Allmen and Terri Vivoli  led a hike around the golf course.  They met at the Clubhouse parking lot at 8:30am. The hike was about 3 miles.

On 4-27-2012 Amy Meier lead long hikers on a 7-8 mile hike in Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. The hike was in the western section of Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve. There were bridges whenever the creek was crossed. They started at the Higgins-Purisima Trailhead on Purisima Creek Trail, going past the porta-potties. Keeping  straight on Purisima Creek Trail following the creek. At the fork they turned left onto Craig Britton Trail(formerly Soda Gulch Trail), which is signed as a hiking only trail but does get bicycle traffic. Craig Britton Trail winds along canyon walls through a deep redwood forest then dips back under the redwoods, crossing Soda Gulch Creek. At the next open, grassy area, looking to the west there were views to the ocean. As Craig Britton Trail climbs uphill through a series of switchbacks, the vegetation shifts to chaparral. At the junction with North Ridge trail they continued to the left on Harkins Ridge trail. At the junction they bearded right toward the bridge and trailhead .Elevation 1800 ft. Hiking distance was approximately 8 miles.

 

 

On 4-20-2022 Gary Lohr led a hike to Evergreen College and Montgomery Hill Park. They met at Cribari at 8:50 and  departed at 9:00. The walk was to the campus and then up Yerba Buena to Falls Creek Dr, and then back to the campus and on to the shopping center for coffee. There was a moderate elevation gain going up Yerba Buena.

On 4-13-2022 Pam Thompson  met the group at the old B of A parking lot at 10am and then they hiked to Linear park off Yerba Buena and then onto Le Boulanger for lunch then back to B of A( 4 miles round trip).

They saw this statue on their way.

Gloria Victis (“glory to the vanquished”) is a sculpture by Antonin Mercié. Created in 1874, the sculpture as pictured is seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Another copy of the statue can be found in Bordeaux, France, where it faces Saint André’s Cathedral. Mercié designed this sculpture following France‘s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. He intended to honor those French soldiers who had fallen in the conflict, especially his friend, the artist Henri Regnault (1843–1871). Upon France’s defeat Mercié changed the hero’s head from lifted to fallen.

A winged female allegorical image of Fame (or of Hope) carries to glory a dying French hero, his broken sword a sign of defeat. Mercié’s original plaster sculpture won a medal at the 1874 Paris Salon. Bronze copies were cast in different sizes by the great foundry of Ferdinand Barbedienne.

Its uplifting reassurance that those defeated were nevertheless cared for and granted immortality^[1] made this work well received among the French public, who felt humiliated after losing the war.^[2]

Despite its acclaim, the work was harshly criticized by fellow French sculptor Jean Baffier for its High Renaissance style and for its celebration of a defeat: “We have been beaten like wheat in a barn, and we shouted: ‘Glory to the losers’ – And along comes some sort of bastard artist, the pupil of a sexless school, to put up the image of our cowardice.”^[3]

 

Weekly golf course walk with Cheryl and Terri

Weekly golf course walk with Cheryl and Terri.

On 4-6-2022 Johanna and Wate Bakker led their annual flower hike along Russian Ridge, near Skyline drive in search of elusive wildflowers.  The group was pleasantly surprised by the number of flowers present. The hike was 4-6 miles

Saturday April 2 Akiko Giordono led long hikers on 7-8 mile hike in Stevens Creek County Park. They hiked on Stevens Creek/Tony Look Trail to Madrone picnic area then up on Lookout Trail into Fremont Older Open Space to Nob Hill, where they took a lunch break and enjoyed a panoramic view of Silicon Valley.

Bonnie Preston  led a hike to Olivis south boarder. They met at the Vineyard center  They walked along the western border of Olivas to the trail up along the southern border, then down the streams.