by Susan Bancroft | Oct 9, 2017 | Hiking, Photography
As I’ve confessed before, I’m a bit of a wildflower junkie. Last year (March 2016) I read an article about the once in a generation ‘superbloom’ in Death Valley. So I dropped what I was doing, took off for Stovepipe Wells and got a pretty good, below sea level,...
by Susan Bancroft | Jul 9, 2015 | Beaches, Big Sur, Hiking, Photography
ANDREW MOLERA State Park: (June 2019) CLOSED TRAILS: River, Twin Cottonwoods, Hidden and Trail Camp/Headlands. OPEN TRAILS: Creamery Meadow, Ridge, Bluffs, Panorama, Spring, East Molera, Bobcat and Coyote Flat trails. NOTE: On October 31, 2018 the seasonal footbridge...
by Susan Bancroft | Aug 5, 2014 | Hiking, Photography
Toro County Park, dammit. It took two, seven-mile hikes to get it right. The first time I set out on foot at Toro County Park I parked right there at the front gate. I really should have driven up to the 3rd parking lot, which would have put me on the trail past all...
by Susan Bancroft | Mar 15, 2014 | Hiking, Photography
The thing is, from the road the hills don’t look all that steep. They look like hills of the ‘gentle rolling’ genre and seem relatively tame after a trip to Big Sur or Pinnacles. However, they suddenly get a lot steeper when I’ve lost...