From my Hikes column at the Mercury News. Early birds get the trails to themselves at Sanborn-Skyline, the popular Santa Clara County park just west of Saratoga. While the early hikers get the best rewards at pretty much any park,…

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So I’m stopping for lunch near a trailhead at Sanborn Skyline County Park that happens to be across the road from Castle Rock State Park. The Sanborn Skyline parking lot is full, but none of those carloads of hikers are…

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Just a shady walk through the hills of a county park I hadn’t been to before. Sanborn Skyline is off Highway 9 west of Saratoga — nestled, as we love to say in the news biz — in the woods…

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