SHUTTLE HIKE - NOTE EARLY STARTING, LATE ENDING TIME
CALL WENDY AT 457-3949 or send her an e-mail her at bdreskin@comcast.net if you are coming!
This one-way shuttle hike starts in oak/bay/madrone woodland, passes through chaparral, then heads down to a valley with a stream, passing some serpentine rock areas. We'll check out birds and mushrooms as we go. (Click here for the recap of our hike in this area in January of 2009. The January 2010 hike was cancelled due to bad weather).
Directions to trailhead: We need some people to meet at the end of Cascade Drive in Fairfax at 9:20 a.m. If you have time pressure after class go there as well, since the car shuttle won’t get us back to the trailhead until a little after 2:00 pm. Wendy will drive those drivers to the start of the hike.
Others should meet at the trailhead by taking the Bolinas-Fairfax Road past the Meadow Club (golf course) and up to the crest of the hill. Park in the parking lot across from the Pine Mountain Fire Road. It is a large dirt parking lot on your left, and the fire road is on the right. If you start going downhill and can see Lake Alpine, you’ve gone too far. There may be a porta-potty at the trailhead.
Carpool to the trailhead (not the end of Cascade Drive) will leave from St. Rita's at 9:25 a.m. (Wendy won't be at St. Rita's she is going early to drive to the end of Cascade Drive).
Weather forecast: As of Monday morning, January 3rd, the National Weather Service forecast for Fairfax for the day of the hike was patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 54. East northeast wind between 5 and 7 mph. (Click here for an updated forecast).
More on this hike: We'll be hiking on both MMWD watershed lands (click here for a map that you can view, zoom in on or print) and those of the Marin County Open Space District (click here for a description of the preserve in the Cascade area of Fairfax, or click here for a map of this area).
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