El Corte De Madera Open Space

A friend and I hiked a 7-mile loop at the EL Corte De Madera Open Space on Saturday. 7 miles shouldn't be bad at all, but it was a pretty tough hike. Not sure if I've mentioned this before, some friends and I run one round of Lake Merced Saturday mornings, which is about 4 miles long. We started the hike after the post-run brunch, and the trails also has a lot of significant elevation changes, so everything adds up and make it pretty tough. On the other hand, this hike does have some cool points of interests as rewards, and they are the million-year-old rock formation, a giant tree, and a summit viewpoint. 

Most of the trails also allow bike rides, so you'll be giving way to bikers from time to time. There's something very weird about this place though. All the trails seem to be well signed, and I've been here once before, still we got lost several times with maps in our hands. We planned to visit the rock formation but we didn't realized we went the wrong way until it was pretty far from the correct trail. We were exhausted to go back, so we just headed back to the parking lot. 

You do can hear the sound of streams during most of the hike, and the blooming of the wild flowers decorated the trails. and even the place is supposed to be an Open Space, most of the trails are shaded. It was a shame we got lost and didn't visit the rock formation, I'll for sure take some pictures of it for the next visit. 

 

Trail info

Trail head: next to the secondary parking lot close to 15600 Skyline blvd                             Woodside, CA 94062
Difficulty: moderate-difficult, a lot of elevation changes and climbs
Length: very flexible, from anywhere 3-10+ loop routes
Condition: dirt trail; mostly shaded
Time: took us almost 4 hours

Parking: The larger Skeggs Point parking lot or the secondary parking lot

 

 

星期六那天我和一个朋友去了一个叫EL Corte De Madera Open Space的公园走了7英里的循环径。7英里本来应该难度不大，但那天走得相当辛苦。我忘记了之前有没有提过，我和几个朋友基本每星期六早上都去Lake Merced跑一圈，大概4英里长。我们跑完步，吃完早餐再去的，但是因为这个公园的垂直差非常大，加起来就变得很有挑战性了。另一方面，这个公园里面有几个很酷的景点：一个几百万年的石头组型，一棵超巨大的书，和山顶的观景点。这些算是爬得那么辛苦之后的奖励吧。

 

公园里大部分的远足径也允许自行车使用，所以时不时你是要让一下骑行者的。这个地方有一个有点不可思议的地方，那就是虽然每条远足径都好像标示的很详细很到位，但是我们手上拿着地图，而且我已经来过一次了，最后还是迷路了几次。我们本来打算去看那个几百万年老的石，但是最后走错了路，还走了蛮远了，再加山我们都很累了，最后就放弃了没去，直接走回停车场。

在公园里的很多地方你都可以听到小溪的流水声，野花还到处点缀。 虽然名字感觉是叫开阔地，大部分的路程还是在树荫底下的。没有去到那个石头的景点真的蛮可惜的，下一次再去的时候一定要照些照片给大家看呢。

远足径资料

起点：15600 Skyline blvd， oodside, CA 94062这个地址旁边的小型停车场

难度：中等-困难，前半部分爬山，后半部分下山，道路非常崎岖

长度：灵活的设计，3-10英里各种不同长度的循环径

路况：泥路，大部分都有树阴

时间：我们用了4小时走了7英里

停车： 以上提过的小型停车场，或者Skeggs point主停车场

 

 

 

blooming wild flowers 盛开的野花

Me inside a tree trunk :) 超大的树洞