Going With The Flow (Into MMWD Lakes)

If you didn't turn to the back of the San Francisco Chronicle "Sporting Green" section on Thursday, March 5th, you missed Tom Stienstra's article "Go With The Flow" about hiking to the lakes in the Mount Tam watershed. When we hiked from Alpine Lake to Bon Tempe on December 16th, water levels in Alpine were still quite low, but a photo accompanying Stienstra's article shows water now rushing over the spillway. (Click here for information on MMWD reservoir levels as of March 1st).

Stienstra omits Phoenix Lake (where we hiked to this past Tuesday), but covers two hikes we've not done in the last year of "Meandering in Marin": The Kent Lake Pump Trail (starts just before Alpine Dam and heads downstream; see hike "C10 Old Sled - Old Vee - Carson Falls" in the Martins' book, Hiking Marin for a map that shows the trail location) and the Kent Lake Peters Dam Trail (trailhead by Shafter Bridge; see hike "H7 Kent Lake - San Geronimo Ridge" in the Martins' book, Hiking Marin).