Sandy and John Petrin led an “out and back” hike on Wednesday, August 7th from Oak Meadow Park, (233 Blossom Hill Rd) along Los Gatos Creek to the Purple Onion Café (for coffee/treats).

Dan Kato led a long hike at the recently opened Bear Creek Redwoods in the Open Space Preserve. This was a challenging climb of about 1400 ft. to the summit at Madrone Knoll. Total hike length was about 8 miles. They were wide, well groomed trails through a beautiful redwood forest, shaded almost the entire length, and the climbs were not too steep. Part of the group broke off to do a less challenging hike.

 

 

Pam Thompson led a 4-5 mile hike to Starbuck/New Seasons on Wednesday, July 31st and back.

 

Ramon and Marianna Reza led an out and back hike on Wednesday, July 24th on the Coastside Trail, a winding, flat, paved trail that goes in and out from the edge of the Pacific Coast. Round trip hike distance was approximately 5 miles.

 

Russ Glines led a hike up our hill from Foothill Center.

 

Dave Wilson, The Singing Cowboy, and his country band, Hoot n Holler, performed at the Hiking Club’s Summer BBQ on Thursday, July 18 at The Gazebo. Barbeque was served starting at 5:30 pm, followed by Dave and friends!

Rich Bainbridge and Wendy Ledamun led a hike along the Bay Bridge Bicycle/Pedestrian Path that runs along the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the newly opened Vista Point on Yerba Buena Island. The Vista Point offers sweeping views of the East Span of the Bay Bridge, San Francisco Bay and Oakland. From there they took the free shuttle to the Avenue of the Palms on Treasure Island for lunch.

 

Wate and Johanna Bakker led an urban hike in San Francisco on Saturday, July 6th. They started at the waterfront near the Exploratorium and climbed the stairs to Coit Tower and then proceeded from there to Chinatown for lunch. After lunch they returned to the Embarcadero center and the Ferry building. It was a 4-5 mile hike but included a considerable amount of stair climbing.

 

Katy Peretti led a hike along Coyote Creek. The 5 mile hike was along a flat paved mostly shaded trail.