Wildflower Hike

Sonoma Valley as viewed from the East Slope Sonoma Mountain Ridge Trail.

User: Austin Explorer - 4/20/2024

Location: Jack London State Historic Park

Rating: 3stars

Difficulty: 4stars

Solitude:

Miles Hiked: 12.48 Miles Elapsed Time: 6 hours, 12 minutes

Comments:

Coppertone and I signed up for a guided wildflower hike on this day. We saw a bunch of different varieties of flowers but also put in more mileage than we had hiked in quite a long time. At the end of the day we were very tired!

Among the flowers we observed and recorded were Pacific Hounds Tongue, Common Pacific Pea, Red Larkspur, Bermuda Buttercup, Fernald's Iris, Blue Dicks, Miner's Lettuce, Popcorn Flower, Starry False Lilly of the Valley, Miniature Lupine, Lupine, Baby Blue Eyes, White Nemophilia, California Poppy, California Manroot, Blue Eyed Grass and several others that I failed to record properly.

This hike ascended up the mountain via the Mountain Trail. From there it followed the Sonoma Ridge Trail all the way to the end at the Eliot Family Loop Trail. So we were able to map out a trail segment we had never visited before.

Log Photos

Through the forest

Poppies

Sonoma Valley

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