This summer explore three great hikes with three different ways to get wet.
When embarking on a summer hike, it’s important to remember the necessities. Water. Hat. Sunscreen. The second kind of water.
Visitors hike along the Tennessee Valley Trail, a 1.7-mile path that ends at Tennessee Beach in Mill Valley. You know you’re on a good water hike when there are fish on the trail. More on that in a minute. Abnormally cold waters and nutrient upwelling created prolific spawns of baitfish off the coast. Birds, like gulls and pelicans, ate until they literally couldn’t eat anymore. So they just dropped or regurgitated the rest in a stinky fish rain on a swath stretching from Half Moon Bay to San Francisco to Marin.
Look carefully and you’ll catch the “Phantom of the Forest,” one of perhaps a dozen albino redwoods in the park. It lacks chlorophyll and is ghostly white – like a vampire, it sucks nutrients from neighboring roots. There are various theories why albino redwoods exist. Given that some of them have elevated levels of metals, it’s possible they withdraw toxins from the ground to protect other trees.
The Garden of Eden received its name from the propensity of people to hurl their clothing away. It still has a reputation among nudists, though not as much as before. As one person lamented on: “In the last 10 or so years, I’ve noticed that the youth don’t really get naked like we did in the ’80s and ’90s. Changing culture? Whenever I go to Garden of Eden, it’s always a bunch of fully dressed, high school kids.
Most of Trione-Annadel’s moderately difficult paths lead to this watery heart. The Warren Richardson Trail is a popular route through shady trees and springtime fairy-slipper orchids. The rocky Cobblestone Trail ascends by the old Wymore Quarry, which provided cobblestones for road construction in Sacramento and San Francisco.
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