Goodspeed again

Dad and I tend to hike Goodspeed (in Sugarloaf State Park in Glen Ellen/Kenwood?) once a month because it's consistently the hardest trail we hike. So today we did that, and because we've now done it approximately 13 times I sort of didn't take many new pictures.

So instead I'll post the photos Dad took the last time we did this, in December.

Still clocks in at around 7 miles and takes about 3 hours, depending on how arduous Dad and I find dragging ourselves up to Gunsight Rock on any given day.

Dipsea and Matt Davis

Our latest hike took us over to Stinson Beach and the hills above it. Originally we were going to go up the Steep Ravine Trail to the Pantoll Campground on Mt. Tamalpais, but found that the trail was closed due to storm damage. So we took the Dipsea Trail to Pantoll instead, and came back down the Matt Davis Trail.

 

 

Post-hikin' food.

Overall the whole endeavor took about three hours and clocked in somewhere between seven and eight miles.

New Year's Eve hike: Ice

In the interest of not over-complicating New Year's Eve, we decided to stay close to home for a small hike at Annadel State Park. I don't really know how long it was (probably not more than five miles or so), and it took us about two and a half hours.

We've been experiencing morning freezes for the past few days, so what interested me the most on the trails was the amount of ice we encountered.