Summary
Location: Sanborn county park, Saratoga California
Trail: A short part of the skyline trail and then the Summit rock loop trail
Date & Time: 09/27/2015 11:00 AM
Distance: 3.5 miles
Duration: 1 hours 20 minutes
Difficulty (1-5): 1, Short easy hike on an excellent trail almost fully in shade
Official web page:
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/pages/sanborn.aspx
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Story
Last Sunday we were heading up in the Saratoga mountains to do some hiking in the Castle Rock Park. But when arriving there the parking was completely full and so many cars already waiting for a free spot so we gave up that idea quickly.
We decided to head somewhere else and only after driving about a mile north on Highway 9 i noticed an almost empty parking lot on the right side of the road and we decided to stop and see what we could find there. Looking at the map i could see that we were at the skyline trail but had a very short hike on that before reaching the summit rock loop trail. Even though it seemed a bit short we decided to go for this trail and headed out.
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| The entrance from the parking |
Like mentioned we started by hiking only about a quarter mile on the summit trail before we turned left into the summit rock trail. Trail condition is excellent and there is basically no other trails so its very easy to follow the loop.
After about another half mile we exited the loop trail to head up to the summit rock itself. The summit rock is a wonderful rock foundation that is very popular for climbing. You can do some easy minor climbing without ropes to get a wonderful view over the bay area. I believe this part is closed during periods for preservation's but at this time it was opened.
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| Summit rock |
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| Summit rock |
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| Summit rock |
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| View from the summit rock |
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| Me climbing up on the top |
After hanging out at the rock for a while we headed back to the loop trail and continued our hike. The rest of the loop trail is easy, quite and very beautiful. The first 1.5 mile goes slightly downhill until it turns and takes you slowly back up to the crest again.
The entire trail is in shade so it never gets so hot even if its hot outside. Also there is not many people here so the hike is very peaceful.
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| This is what almost the entire trail looks like |
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| Slowly going down the hill |
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| And then slowly up again |
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| Hiking shoes :) |
So to summarize this short hike, easy, nice but a bit to short...
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| Our hike |
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