Capture California, the Game-2012
Adventure: 008-140: Riche Trail
Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date: September 26, 2012
Location: EBMUD
Details: This was my first time on EBMUD trails. You have to buy a hiking permit to hike this area owned by the East Bay water people, which I did the morning of this trail run. The trail map for this area is… lacking and there are a deceiving number of fire roads that a newbie could get mixed up with a trail. I had heard that EBMUD is infamous for poor trail markers so I wasn’t even concerned when at some point I had 4 trails and no signs. I just got my compass and map out and “navigated” …. Into a dead end trail into a power line. Hmmmm…. Well try try try again, I guess. After repeating this a dozen times over the course of multiple trail intersections (all while taking pictures with the flag, of course) I finally came to a dead end. At least I had a view of the San Lorenzo reservoir. At that point I decided to turn around and head back to the car, still perplexed about the trail I was following.
About 200 ft from
the car is where I noticed the actual sign for the Riche trail. Oops. I guess I
missed that one. So I decided to keep on going so that I could actually do the
trail I originally planned on. I would say the real Riche Trail is much nicer
than the fake Riche Trail.
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