Today we hiked at Bishop Ranch Open Space literally in some of our back yards. The hills were lush green and brimming with wildflowers. The trail was quite challenging with a lot of steep ups and downs. We hiked for a total of about 4 miles in a little less than 2 hours. We started off along Stream View Trail. This involved a few small stream crossings and took us through a wooded area on a single path trail. We saw a lot of buttercups in this area. As we continued upward and into a more open space we saw lupines, both miniature and standard, fields of tiny pink geranium, blue eyed grass, and most impressive the field of California poppies as we started down the final Grey Fox Trail. We didn’t see any wild life that I know of but the group was large and perhaps some of you spotted something I didn’t see. Most of us hiked past the water tower and to the Paddock entrance before completing the loop.
Today’s hikers were Barbara J., Chris T., Jane H., Lois T., Aleta S., Rose T., ShirleyA., Celia M., Sharon K. and 3 guests: Suzi R., Debbie A., and Monica V. Joining us afterwards for lunch at Kathy Incavo’s new home were Cathy K, Jacky H., Theresa A., and guest Barbara C. It was so nice to have so many out of the trails today, enjoying this beautiful spring weather and friendships–new and old.
Thank you Kathy for inviting us over for lunch. Your new home is lovely. Several people were asking if you would share your apple dessert with the group. It was delicious.
We hope that Suzi, Debbie, Monica and Barbara will join us again next week as will all of our members.
Happy Trails, Sharon
