Adventure 008, Hike 093 - Crespi Trail

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 008, Hike 093 - Crespi Trail

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 6, 2012

Location: Morro State Park Cerro Cabrillo trails

Hike Info:

Trail: Crespi Trail

Distance: 1.5 miles

Duration: 0:51

Elevation Rise: 267'

Description:
We came to this trail after being on the Chumash trail. As we turned on this trail ,Thing Two is talking about where has she heard the name Crespi. She knows the name sounded familiar. It came from our earlier Capture California Adventures. He was heavily involved in the establishment and running of several missions. We were not expecting a lot from this trail, just looking at the visual of the hillside. It was getting warmer and Thing Two's feet were getting tired. The trailed ended up being our favorite in this area.


You went through the native grass of the area and head up and down the hill. It was fabulous when we came to a section with live oaks. Not only were they a welcome relief from the Coastal heat, but they were great to look at. There were a variety of different plants on this trail that we did not see on the other parts of the hill. It is always interesting when a slight difference of elevation, a turn in the path, or possibly a slight change in the micro-climate allows for a different variety of plant to form.

From the sign What is in a Name: Crespi-Father Juan Crespi was the diarist of the Spanish land expedition let by Gaspar de Portola. This party of about 65 mounted horsemen and 100 pack mules marched up the California coast in 1760 from San Diego to Monterey Bay. On September 8^th, Crespi remarked about the scenery from their camp near los Osos:

An estuary of immense size enters this valley, so large that it looked like a harbor to us; its mouth open to the southwest…….to the north, we saw a great rock in the form of a morro, which at high tide is isolated from the coast by little less that a gunshot.”