Bike Intelligencer » arastradero park http://bikeintelligencer.com All bike, all the time Sat, 04 May 2013 01:18:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 NorCal Trails Still Suffering http://bikeintelligencer.com/2010/03/norcal-trails-still-suffering/ http://bikeintelligencer.com/2010/03/norcal-trails-still-suffering/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:48:55 +0000 Paul Andrews, BI editor http://bikeintelligencer.com/?p=2413 The weather outlook has brightened considerably in soggy Northern California, but it will be a while before trails pack down for riding.

Sources from Santa Cruz to Marin have reported boggy sections of favorite trails, and even in exposed double-track, drainage continues to provide a high spatter factor. Wilder Ranch, which we rode on Wednesday (only on fire roads), re-opened yesterday afternoon after being closed due to conditions.

Beware the poison oak!

We tried out Arastradero regional park in Palo Alto yesterday and it wasn’t pretty. Exposed and multi-use, Arastradero is our bellwether site. Although chunks of trail are dry, numerous switchbacks and runoff sinks have been churned into goo.

On one popular spur, damage was so severe that walk-arounders have made a section hourglass-shaped. The only problem: It puts users right alongside a fresh patch of poison oak.

With little rain forecast in the foreseeable future, trails should bounce back quickly. We’ll keep you posted.

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