NAVARRO RIDGE

A wonderful day up on NAVARRO RIDGE, sunny but cool with a touch of breeze. There was a good-sized crowd of us fogdodgers with a couple of newish faces: John, Joe, Deb, Sam, Tom, Diana, Jeff, Beth, Bob, Tess, Bruce, Sky, Pat (with Leon staying behind), Fran, Jean, Eve, and Gary/ On the way back toward the grange we ran into Claudette along with Judy and Dean. Bob was rumored to be running somewhere.

Lots o us stayed for the famous pancake breakfast at the grange. They have learned there lesson and built up a supply of pancakes so there was no waiting for them.

John's photos: 

Navarro-Ridge-Cattle

4th of July 2020

Mendocino-Bay-June

Belted-Galloway

Mendocino-Bay-2

NEXT SUNDAY, July 5 @ 8:00 A.M.: GROUP RUN/WALK/BIKE, RUSSIAN GULCH. You can click on the "Our Routes" tab at the top to get directions, if needed.

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN/WALK @ 7:30 A.M.: COASTAL TRAIL - MIDDLE, behind the Fort Bragg Fire Station.

COASTAL TRAIL – SOUTH

We had a pleasant hike at COASTAL TRAIL – SOUTH this last Sunday morning. Hiking were Tom (Nancy is "in the shop" after an injury), Sky, Kelly, Mark, Joe, Fran, Jean, Charlene, Beth, Bob, Eve, Gary, Kim, Doug, Zelda, Eric, and Pat (with Leon in the car). It seem like this weekend has been particularly busy on the coast but, on this Sunday morning, things were not too bad. Several Fogdodgers had plans to attend the Comptche BBQ.

After the walk about eleven of us had breakfast at Denny's.

John was absent but sent me these two photos:

Fort Bragg Headlands looking south

Noyo Headlands Park Map

NEXT SUNDAY, June 28 @ 8:00 A.M.: GROUP RUN/WALK/BIKE, NAVARRO RIDGE. You can click on the "Our Routes" tab at the top to get directions, if needed.

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN/WALK @ 7:30 A.M.: COASTAL TRAIL - MIDDLE, behind the Fort Bragg Fire Station.

MENDOCINO HEADLANDS

We took our usual hike around the MENDOCINO HEADLANDS as it was the day of the pancake breakfast at St Anthony's. Fogdodgers present were Richard Link, Nancy, Tom, John, Joe, Mark, Eric, Deb, Sam, Sky, Kim, Doug, Beth, Bob, Charlene, Jean, Fran, and later Pat, with Leon in the car. Did I miss anyone?

Several fogdodgers then went to St Anthony's for breakfast.

Here are John's photos:

Sams-New-Car

Mendocino-Barn-House

Mendocino-Cottage

Stop

Voodoo-Lily,-Dracunculus

Summer-Flower

NEXT SUNDAY, June 21 @ 8:00 A.M.: GROUP RUN/WALK/BIKE, COASTAL TRAIL – SOUTH (Taco Bell). You can click on the "Our Routes" tab at the top to get directions, if needed.

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN/WALK @ 7:30 A.M.: COASTAL TRAIL - MIDDLE, behind the Fort Bragg Fire Station.

PT CABRILLO LIGHTHOUSE

This last Sunday we went to PT CABRILLO LIGHTHOUSE, a location we haven't visited for quite a while. The hike there is pretty short if one just goes down the road and back up so our group split up with some hiking north along the trails before turning to return to the parking lot while others lingered around the lighthouse and went south a short distance to the pond. At the pond some were lucky enough to spot a family of river otters who are making the pond their home, at least until the fish supply runs out. According to report baby otters are really cute.

Hiking were Deb, Sam, Nancy, Tom, Sky, Jean, Fran, Doug, Kim, John, Barbara Joe,Charlene, and Chris.

Afterward a group of nine of us went to the the Good Life for a very nice breakfast.

And for those interested in the bumblebee story I told, here is an article with a video:

bumblebees using balls as stepladders 

John's photos:

Caspar-Lite-Station

Caspar-Lite-water-pond

Caspar-Lite-Station-Residence

Trail-to-Caspar-Beach

Neighborood-Horses-Sunning

NEXT SUNDAY, June 14 @ 8:00 A.M.: GROUP RUN/WALK/BIKE, MENDOCINO HEADLANDS. You can click on the "Our Routes" tab at the top to get directions, if needed. 

And for the week after that perhaps COASTAL TRAIL – SOUTH.... what do you think?

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN/WALK @ 7:30 A.M.: COASTAL TRAIL - MIDDLE, behind the Fort Bragg Fire Station.

PUDDING CREEK TRESTLE

This past Sunday we walked starting from the south end of PUDDING CREEK TRESTLE. A medium sized group of long-time Fogdodgers did the walk: Nancy, Tom, John, Joe, Deb, Sam, Charlene, Kim, Doug, Sky, Eric, and Mark. Beth and Bob joined us a bit later.

Afterwards I gather most Fogdodgers went to Denny's for breakfast.

John took some beautiful photos:

Pudding-Creek-Bay

White Crowned Sparrow (at the limit of cell phone camera zoom)

Pudding-Creek-Bridge

Guest-House

Pudding-Creek-Trestle

The-Skunk

Train-Yard

NEXT SUNDAY, June 7 @ 8:00 A.M.: GROUP RUN/WALK/BIKE, PT CABRILLO LIGHTHOUSE. You can click on the "Our Routes" tab at the top to get directions, if needed.

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN/WALK @ 7:30 A.M.: COASTAL TRAIL - MIDDLE, behind the Fort Bragg Fire Station.

NAVARRO RIDGE

As usual for the fourth Sunday of the month we walked east along the road at NAVARRO RIDGE. This time it was mostly the fogdodgers who have been with the group for a long time. Hiking were Charlene, Tom, John, Joe, Eric, Deb, Sam, and Fran. Nice cool weather and lots of spring flowers. There were a couple of California Quail parents with lots of very recently hatched chicks at one driveway along the road.

Of course almost all of us attended the grange pancake breakfast. 

John's photos:

Navarro-Ridge-Barn

Navarro-Ridge-Fog-Dodgers

Navarro-Ridge-Fried-Egg

Navarro-Ridge-Cattle

Chapman-Point

Jug-Handle-Farm

NEXT SUNDAY, May 31 @ 8:00 A.M.: GROUP RUN/WALK/BIKE, PUDDING CREEK TRESTLE. You can click on the "Our Routes" tab at the top to get directions, if needed.

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN/WALK @ 7:30 A.M.: COASTAL TRAIL - MIDDLE, behind the Fort Bragg Fire Station.

WARD AVENUE

I could not have predicted the wind when I selected WARD AVENUE for this week's hike, but it turned out to be hella windy today. In order to minimize the wind some of us actually hiked east on Ward Avenue rather than the usual path south along the road at the coast. The wind made it chilly but otherwise it was a beautiful day. Hiking were Nancy, Tom, Diana, Jeff, Eric, Joe, John, Charlene, Fran, Jean, Zelda, Kim, Doug, and Mark.

Seven of us went to breakfast at the Laurel Deli and were able to use the back room - always nice.

John got some good photos:

Windswept-Mackerricher

Deer-in-the-dunes

Haul-road-north

Deer-out-of-the-wind

Ward-Ave-Blooms

Mckerricher-sea-wall-remains (made of old railroad rails)

Ward-Ave-Rhodedendron 

NEXT SUNDAY, May 24 @ 8:00 A.M.: GROUP RUN/WALK/BIKE, NAVARRO RIDGE (let me know if you all are getting tired of NAVARRO RIDGE every fourth Sunday). You can click on the "Our Routes" tab at the top to get directions, if needed.

EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY, GROUP RUN/WALK @ 7:30 A.M.: COASTAL TRAIL - MIDDLE, behind the Fort Bragg Fire Station.