Tag: santa cruz mountains
Getting Out: Bay Area trails overlook the coast
Our California hills prefer to roll along, rising and falling in gentle gradients. There are few trails etched high into steep slopes where a misstep is costly, or where one dreams of tilting forward and taking flight. Not many, but there are a few.Â
Where have all the grapes gone?
From drought to mold, unseasonably cool temperatures to hungry nematodes, winemakers take their occupational wildcards in stride.
Getting Out: Hiking the ‘pearls’ of Skyline
Skyline Boulevard traces the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains down the peninsula from San Francisco to Highway 17. Rain that falls on the southwest side of the road collects underneath Douglas firs and redwoods on its way to the Pacific Ocean. Just across the road, runoff goes the other direction, down through the various peninsula communities and into San Francisco Bay.
