Goodbye Coe
My first official trailwork day in Coe was on the remote Mississippi Ridge Trail. June 10, 2006. That was the last or next-to-last day of a long project to clear that trail. A couple friends had recently ridden it, seemed like a good ride idea. See how it is in 2014. Greg could ride mid-week but had to be back in time to pick up his kids in San Jose at 6pm. I convinced him that we could do this within his time window...well, it wasn't too hard to convince him!
We agreed to meet at 8:30am but Greg might start early. And he did:
He had a 35 minutes head start. It was cool, windy, overcast, and I was feeling pretty good. The miles went by relatively easy. At Willson Camp there is a project going on to rehab a nearby pond. (I chatted with one of the workers.)
The Springtime scenery is fading but these yellow flowers on the Pacheco Creek Trail were great!
I reached our rendezvous point, Willow Ridge & Pacheco Ridge roads, at 12:10pm. Greg had scratched a message in the dirt that he was there at 11:52, was going ahead and would do some brushing to kill time. After a quick lunch, I found Greg in no time:
Pictures from the Mississippi Ridge Trail:
The trail is now very overgrown, it goes in the "where the trail sheds you!" category. By the end we were both scratched up. I took a tumble and had a scraped knee and slightly bruised ribs. It was great to do that trail but it took a toll.
We were done before 1:30 so we had plenty of time for the return trip.
Ugh, the roadgrader had totally messed-up the tread on Live Oak Spring Road:
Greg can talk me into riding trails which I normally avoid, here we go up Serpentine:
Greg cresting Serpentine with a wheelie is an appropriate Goodbye Coe shot:
Greg will be moving to Boulder, CO at the end of July. This may have been his last ride at Coe. :-(
We were back at Hunting Hollow at 4:10pm so Greg was ahead of schedule. I went back out and did a Jim Donnelly/Spike Jones/Timm loop; ran into Steve "Congzilla" from the 2006 HecticMetric solstice ride (because I just run into people on the trails).
Start at Hunting Hollow » Hunting Hollow Road » Lyman Willson Ridge Trail » Bowl Trail » Willson Camp » Wagon Road » Wasno Pond Trail » Wagon Road » Fish & Game Trail » Coit Road » Willow Ridge Road » White Tank Spring Road » White Tank Spring Trail » Rose Dam Trail » Pacheco Creek Trail » Willow Ridge Road » Mississippi Ridge Trail » Coit Road » Pacheco Ridge Road » Ridge Trail » Pacheco Creek Trail » Pacheco Camp » Coit Road » Live Oak Spring Trail (upper) » Wagon Road » Wasno Road » Tule Pond Trail » Grizzly Gulch Trail » Serpentine Trail » Steer Ridge Road » Middle Steer Ridge Trail » Hunting Hollow Road » Hunting Hollow parking, Greg's ride ended. Hunting Hollow Road » Jim Donnelly Trail » Steer Ridge Road » Jim2Jones Trail » Spike Jones Trail » Timm Trail » Spike Jones Trail » Coit Road » Coyote Creek gate » Gilroy Hot Springs Road » Hunting Hollow parking. 41.10/7:15/9:40/8,101'
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