8/25 Hooky Day at Annadel State Park

[SadieKate]

Thanks, Deanna. I just emailed them to see if I can get the maps by Thursday. A possible 10-day wait is pretty extreme. We'll be on the trail before the shops open so I'm dependent on them responding to my email.

I have asked if there is a retailer in Davis.

[Deanna]

I'll check to see if I still have one. If they can't get it to you, I'll see what I can do.

[SadieKate]

Cool news! I've been emailing with the map company and he's going to drop the map(s) in the mail from Berkeley tomorrow. That should get it to me on Thursday. I've asked him to mail whatever method possible that works. Just waiting for a shipment fee. $1 for 3 maps doesn't seem quite right.

Thanks, Deanna, for the info and the offer.

[Deanna]

Ohh, I just remembered - most, if not all of Steve's S is off limits to bikes. It's an interesting trail though--covered with obsidian flakes from when regional tribes got obsidian there (they only carved "blanks" for transport, so your not likely to find arrowheads). I did some state park volunteer training there, I wish I could go with you so I could see how much I remember.

[SadieKate]

http://www.ogrehut.net/trails.php/Bay-North/Annadel
http://arnica.csustan.edu/mtbike/Maps/Annadel_Map.pdf

Look, I found a fairly up to date map in case the other doesn’t make it in time.

We usually, park at Spring Lake and ride up Channel Drive/Trail (depending on how easy a warm up is desired), up Richardson, up either Two Quarry or South Burma (pros and cons to each) to Ledson Marsh.

We then pick up Marsh to Ridge/Upper Steve’s (this is not the closed piece) and back to Marsh. My old maps didn't have this on them.

I’m then in a quandary and I’ll have to go find my old notes. I swear we descend on Canyon and Cobblestone but I don’t know how we got from one to the other. I’m also tempted by descending Canyon to Spring Creek to get to North Burma and Channel Trail. I’ve never descended that way and some of the trail reports make it sound fun.

Cobblestone is cool because you get some views but you can get rattled to death. V has a hard tail and Cobblestone can get a bit old on a hardtail. That said, I used to ride Annadel on a fully rigid bike before they re-vamped the trails and made them MTB friendly. I’m older and less compliant now.