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Folsom Lake / Southside Trail, CA
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| Hiking | 17.50 Miles |
1,080 AEG |
| | Hiking | 17.50 Miles | 4 Hrs 35 Mns | | 3.82 mph |
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| no partners | | After flying by Mt. Whitney on the way into Sacramento for meetings, I pouted a while that I could summit it and planned to go to Folsom Lake, which has over 90 miles of nice/easy trails. Ah, not a summit, but lots of water and greenery that this desert rat doesn't get enough of!
Did mile marker 1.5 to a little past the 10-mile mark of Southside Trail, which is the trail along the east side of the lake. Hiked from Brown's Ravine equestrian parking lot NE to around where Lake Hills Drive ends, before New York Creek. Then backtracked to Brown's Ravine to Folsom Point to the south entrance to Folsom Prison (to the point where it said don't dare walk any farther unless you want the heavy hand of the U.S. Federal Government on you; yeah, I turned around).
This trail runs about 32.5 miles total, from Folsom Point to Rattlesnake Bar Road. Trail is very well defined, but there are offshoots that are unmarked throughout that can be deceptive and throw you at times; as long as you're thinking about following around the lake, you'll generally stay on trail. |
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Wildflowers Observation Substantial
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| "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." — Henry David Thoreau |
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