Pudding Creek Trestle (MacKerricher Haul Road)

Another beautiful day on the coast - or maybe not!  I think everyone now thinks that rain is the 'new' beautiful.  Over breakfast this morning, someone said that the high that's sitting over our area causing these dry conditions is predicted to last until March.  Perhaps next week we should organize a rain dance at the end of our walk.  Anyone know how to do this?

Anyway, after all that talk of weather, we took my wife's car this morning which isn't equiped with an outside temperature sensor (these old cars - I don't know how she survives without these essentials of life), so will have to guess that it was about 40deg.

Ron arrived a bit late as he misunderstood where the walk would be this morning.  A discussion by the Fog Dodgers executive committee agreed that calling this walk MacKerricher is confusing, so have renamed it Pudding Creek Trestle(MacKerricer Haul Road).  That will probably now confuse everyone - except Ron of course!  In fact those observant ones may have noticed the new title for this blog.  Sorry Tom, while the cat's away.....

So present today were, Peter, Shari, John, Greg, Nancy B., Rick, Joe, Toni, Gerri, Kathy (a new face - good to see), Jim, Cindy, Gay, Mark - who brought daughter Sarah and grand-daughter Kira, Neil, Ron, Roger and Nancy T.  As always, forgive me if I missed people.

Photos are of this morning with one from John and one from Roger.

As this is the last blog of 2013, I'd like to wish all of you, your friends, loved ones and family a very happy and prosperous New Year.  I'd also like to thank you all for being such a great bunch of people.  Nancy and I consider ourselves very lucky to live here on the coast and to have found such a wonderfully friendly, eclectic and interesting group of people we're proud to call our friends.

Again - have a great week and see you all next year.

NEXT SUNDAY, 1/5/14 @ 8:00 A.M.: RUSSIAN GULCH STATE PARK - See our routes above.
 
And for the following Sunday:
1/12/14 @ 8:00 A.M., CASPAR LOGGING ROAD (parking area #3).  See "Our Routes" above.

EVERY TUESDAY @ 7:15 A.M.: RUSSIAN GULCH STATE PARK, beginning on Point Cabrillo Drive, 1/10 of a mile north of its south end.
EVERY THURSDAY @ 7:15 A.M.: VAN DAMME STATE PARK, beginning at the beach.