Knee breaker on French Trail and Fern

Coppertone and I revisited Redwood Regional Park to start filling in some of the trails that we've missed during our previous visits.  Our primary goal was to walk as far down French Trail as we could before heading back.

Being in the Redwood Creek valley, the length of French Trail is well shaded.  Lots of large Redwood trees sprout up all around.  The trail hugs the ridge high above the creek, but it does not follow the contour lines of the map faithfully.  Instead,  there are numerous and steep ascents and descants along the way.

Unlike the ridge trails above, French Trail is off limits to bikes.  The steep terrain and lack of bikes means fewer people, though there was no shortage of walkers, hikers and runners that we encountered on the trail.

Given the time of day, we elected to use the Fern Trail to pop up to the West Ridge Trail and head back towards the Moon Gate trailhead from which we started.