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| Evolved from an old clear cut forest, Nisene Marks Forest is a California State Park named for the woman who ran the lumbering operation and sawmill until 1923. The 10,000 acres were donated by her children on condition that the land would never be developed and would be allowed to return to wilderness. Today, though evidence of the logging operation is visible, the forest has returned. Its trees make the forest quite dark with good paths and roads a legacy of the lumbering. Since it's so close to the Pacific, the forest is also damp and cool. Of special note, the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is deep within the park. |
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| All three pictures are from the same area, about 2 miles from the closest parking. The first photo looks upstream from below the pink bridge. The third is of a small shrine located under the bridge. The bright red flowers were fresh. I suspect the pink paint is not a official paint job | ||
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Well, it's not really this dark, but sometimes felt that way. We were on a fire road headed back to my truck. Rodger Wedel and Kirby Miller were companions on this hike. Interestingly, they're both avid cyclists. In summer 1994, Rodger, Kirby along with Dick Swinnerton biked from the Pacific coast to Revere Beach Massachusetts. They, joined by their wives, stopped and spent two nights with us at Lake Bluff. Dick's book on the trip, We Passed This Way, is quite good. Not bad for three retired guys. Try as they might, they have never able to seduce me into their bicycle fanaticism |
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