The unburnt areas have been open since Saturday, it turns out. This forum page at MTBR.com has a bunch of details from mountain bikers who’ve scouted the place (scroll down to post 246). Lots of familiar places are off limits…
Henry Coe State Park
Ponderosa Trail at Henry Coe State Park
by tmangan • August 13, 2007 • 3 Comments
On Sunday, the forecast for Gilroy predicted a high of only 82, which struck me as an engraved invitation to stop in on Henry Coe State Park on the rare sub-100 day in August. Naturally, it was at least 10…
A fine day at Henry Coe
by tmangan • May 13, 2007 • 1 Comment
Every year around Mother’s Day, Mike and Kathy take their hiking club out to Henry Coe State Park, where wildflowers tend to still be in bloom and the weather’s pleasant enough that the park’s hills can be survived without keeping…
Sizing up Mount Sizer
by tmangan • February 17, 2007 • 1 Comment
The idea of having 80-some thousand acres all to yourself is hard to get your head around — it’s not like you can act on such knowledge. Heck, it’d take 20 years to explore it all on foot, and while…
Warm thoughts of Henry Coe
by tmangan • August 27, 2006 • 3 Comments
Back to the dirt paths this week. I tempted fate and revisited Henry Coe State Park almost a year to the day after an ill-advised trek up the steepest trail in the park under a blazing, north of 95-degree sun.…
A picture perfect day
by tmangan • May 28, 2006 • 0 Comments
There seems to be a fundamental force of nature which requires that on the day you forget to take your camera along, the skies will be an impossible canvas of California blue, the clouds decorating these skies will billow in…
Yet another Henry Coe hike
by tmangan • May 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
This week’s hike will only seem like a rerun. The pictures were all taken yesterday, but it has many things in common with previous hikes, primarily that it was at Henry Coe State Park (four weeks in a row; where…
Getting my feet wet
by tmangan • April 16, 2006 • 1 Comment
Before I get to this week’s hike, I have to revisit last week, when the instructor of my lightweight backpacking class mentioned having gone on a hike that required something like 50 stream crossings. Somebody asked if he changed out…
Too hot, too hilly: A day at Henry Coe
by tmangan • August 29, 2005 • 0 Comments
If you read up on Henry Coe State Park, the first things you’ll learn are a) the hills are hell; and b) hiking there in late summer is madness. I was one of a few brave fools to hit the…