Hike Fort Ross on August 18
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Our next Rotary and Friends hike, categorized as "Easy", will be held Saturday, August 18. Our hike will take us through the relatively unvisited northeast and north coastal sections of Fort Ross State Park.
We will meet at the Fort Ross State Park parking lot at 9:30 am on Augut 18 and use cars to ferry hikers up the Fort Ross Road to the Old Russian Orchard. After a short walk-about there, we will hike back to Fort Ross on the Kolmer Gulch trail, a gently downward sloping, former logging road and recently re-cleared hiking trail which meets Highway 1 south of Kolmer Gulch. The distance is about 1.6 miles. From this point, Hikers may can either walk back to the Fort Ross parking lot along the Park’s ocean trail (a distance of about 1 mile) or be ferried to the parking lot by car. We plan to eat lunches at Fort Ross’ picnic area in eucalyptus grove adjacent to the parking lot.
Because it takes about 1 hour to drive to Fort Ross, car pooling is advised. Meet at the River Road PG&E transformer facility just west of U 101 on River Road. We will leave for Fort Ross at 8:15 am (on Saturday, August 18).
Peter
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