We return to Point Reyes National Seashore this coming week. Wendy says that "on this hike we'll look for the tule elk, once at the brink of extinction and now making a heartening comeback. This Point is also special for its views."Directions: Take Sir Francis Drake Boulevard west from Fairfax. Turn right at Olema and make an immediate left onto Bear Valley Road. Continue until you pick up Sir Francis Drake again. Go through Inverness. Where the road veers left to Drake's Beach and the lighthouse, go straight. This puts you on Pierce Point Road. Follow it to the parking lot at the end of the road. Do not turn down to McClure's Beach (unless you want to use the rest rooms there before the hike knowing there are none en route). Click here to view and print a map of the Seashore showing these roads and locations. Time: 1 hour 20 minutes from College of Marin.
Weather forecast: As of Saturday (September 6) morning, the National Weather Service forecast for Inverness on Tuesday is patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 62. (Click here for an updated forecast). The marine forecast is for light northwesterly winds gusting in some places to 25 knots mainly during the afternoons and early evenings.
The Martins' book, Hiking Marin, contains the following 9.4 mile roundtrip hike to Tomales Point and back. Presumably Wendy plans to hike only a portion of this route:
(Click here to view and print out a complete description of the hike and map from Martins' book. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer you can print the document. Once you see the document on the "Scribd" Web site, click on the "Download" icon and then on the "PDF" icon to open the document on your computer).
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