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| Mine trail |
Apollo and I had hiked Santa Teresa Park & Stile Ranch Trail recently. The park has more trails that justified another trip to it. I parked in the small lot by Bernal Rd., just before the road becomes restricted for use by IBM employees. There is room to park just 5 or 6 cars in this lot.
Crossing over Bernal Rd, we started hiking Mine Trail and we turned left on Joice Trail at the first intersection. The first mile involves a 300 ft climb, a little more if you choose to do the short vista loop from Joice Trail. The Santa Teresa hills presented a dry, brown setting for our hike today. The vista loop also offered some panoramic views of the Diablo mountain range in the East Bay and Coyote Park nearby.
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| Ohlone trail |
Continuing on Joice Trail, we descended nearly 700 feet over the next two miles or so. Joice Trail connects to Norred Trail, which passes close to the Norred Ranch. Mine Trail, Joice Trail and Norred Trail are all dirt trails / fire roads. Crossing over Bernal Rd, I chose to hike trails that we hadn't included in our hike earlier this month.
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| Brown Park & Golf Greens |
The narrow, mile-long Ohlone Trail running by Bernal Rd and Santa Teresa Golf Club was first. In spite of the drought, the watered lawns of the golf course provided a sharp contrast to the dry scenery in the park. I can only hope that they were using recycled water to make the lawns look so green.
From Ohlone Trail, we joined Ridge Trail first and Hidden Springs Trail later. Our hike today was fairly exposed, with some light shade on certain trails. Ohlone Trail had the most amount of shade.
Passing Pueblo day use on the left, we continued on Hidden Springs Trail, connecting to Mine Trail, and then finished our hike, crossing Bernal Rd twice in the process. Just before reaching the trail head, Apollo decided to chill out following our second water break.
Our 7.3 mile hike today (Mine Trail --> Joice Trail --> Vista Loop --> Joice Trail --> Norred Trail --> Mine Trail --> Ohlone Trail --> Ridge Trail --> Hidden Springs Trail --> Mine Trail) took nearly 2.5 hours and involved more than 1000 feet of climbing at different points.
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