Marc's Public Blog - Biking, Running, Rollerblading and other Exercising

some paths were still under water

lots of PG&E trucks and even boat to try and maintain the lines

strangely the bay level was low at that time

Would have been fun to complete a loop but the PG&E access paths were not open to the public

trees were blooming already, and had no idea that winter wasn't over

new google campus is ready

the bird center was closed unfortunately

been a while since I flew out of PAO

nice shot with 3 arriving planes

shoreline lake was beautiful

Sure, you can also bike up (and it's a tough ride), but it's a fairly long bike ride back in the dark, so driving was easier.

Beautiful hike with sunset views, we'll have to do it again.

We started by Rancho San Antonio:

a bunch of few turkeys

looking for prey

nice colors

The hills are hilly, lots of up biking (or walking), with views:

For reasons unknown, we found petrified trees on the side of the road:

More nice views:

Once we got to the top of Olive Tree Lane, where I thought from the map, we could connect to Chamise Trail, but no, the residents put a gate to stop people from going to a public road to a public trail. I had to find a pretty painful way around the fence, through the brush:

took 15mn to get around

this doesn't show how filled with dirt and leaves, I got

We then exited the park towards Los Altos Hills and a nice little private lake they don't like to share with others :)

More houses:

rich kids get their own private playground

deer in your backyard (both good and bad)

you can camp in your own yard

toy car

Another connecting path:

nice view of the private lake

we then took another connecting path to another path along 280, and back out to civilization