Running from Stinson to Mt Tam and Back

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I have been pretty lazy in documenting our Ultra Training. I haven't even been carrying a camera. It turns out that Oakland has great trails in Redwood Regional Park and Chabot so we've been heading there most weekends with the exception of heading to Mt Tam in partial celebration of Sarah's 30th birthday.

We started on the Dipsea trail in Stinson Beach and headed up stair after stair into the foggy forest, down an unsheltered trail (yet still foggy) back up stairs, through an almost rainforest, and through a spectacular Redwood Grove.

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Then we headed on another trail that took us to Pantoll Road. Then we took an "easy grade" (once a train track) up to the East Peak. It got sunnier as we reached the top, then it got windy.

On the way back we headed to the Mountain Theater, back to Pantoll, the on Matt Davis trail to Stinson Beach. We were gone 5 1/2 hours. Will update trails soon.