Month: September 2021

This morning’s ride takes me around the Lexington Reservoir, a few miles from Los Gatos. The Alma Bridge Road runs completely around this waterbody, creeping around its nooks and crannies as it passes trailheads and overlooks. I stop nostalgically by the boathouse of the Los Gatos Rowing Club where my daughter used to row, to …

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Today’s destination: Felton—a town of about four thousand, founded as a logging town in the latter part of the 19th century and nestled away in the Santa Cruz mountains. It serves today as one end of the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad whose steam engines from the 1890s still ply tourists up steep grades in the …

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