Saturday, October 10, 2009

Alpine Lake & Pine Ridge

It seems that it's possible to get from the southern edge of the Fairfax golf course up to the road near the Pine Ridge fire trail, which connects to the Pine Mountain loop and to trails going to the brewery in San Gernonimo.

This could be added on at the end of one version of the Lake Loop around the Sky Oaks side of the golf course.

Note Sod-donistas whacking it on would you believe it a day in October:

The beginning of the trail, which goes off Bullfrog, is not advised for cyclists:

However, no one can see you after the first couple hundred feet, and you come out on an unnamed and long unused fire trail that does not appear on maps.

It looks like a good place to practice uphill technical stuff--a fair amount of rocks, but gentle grade.

There are a few sketchy places, like this twenty feet of washed out gravel.

Eventually you come out on the road a few hundred feet from the Pine Ridge trail head.

Ugly hill to get up, but only a couple hundred feet:

Then you can go all the way out to hells have acre, north to intersect with Repack . .

. . . or south towards Kent Lake, which I explored a little:

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