11.5 mi Bay Area Ridge Trail: Lomas Cantadas to Skyline

Organizer: Maxx
🌄 HAACCA Hike Invite: Manzanita and Gordon Mills Loop
📍 Location: Orinda, CA
🌐 AllTrails Info: AllTrails Link
📌 GPS Directions: Google Maps
📎 Pin Drop: 37.879937, -122.222093
🚗 Parking: Parking lot or overflow lot
🥾 Hike Details:

• Distance: 8.8 mi - loop
• Duration: ~5.5 hr (2.5-3mph pace)
• Elevation Gain: +2,286 ft
• Dog Policy: No dogs on this hike

This trip starts at Lomas Cantadas, near the Steam Trains in Tilden Regional Park, and ends at Skyline Gate in Redwood Regional Park. This segment of the East Bay Skyline National Recreation Trail, also part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail, heads southeast from Tilden Regional Park, crosses EBMUD land and the Caldecott Tunnel, and then traverses Sibley Volcanic and Huckleberry Botanic regional preserves on its way to the Northwest corner of Redwood Regional Park.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER- BY PARTICIPATING IN ANY ACTVITY (EITHER AS MEMBER OF AS GUEST) YOU ASSUME ALL RISK & DISCHARGE ALL ORANIZERS OF ANY & ALL LIABILITIES RESULTING FROM YOURE VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION

The organizer and co-hosts are ONLY responsible for organizing the hike. We are not professional guides or medics. This is a hobby. When you sign up for this group you are responsible for your own personal safety. By signing up for any event organized by us, you acknowledge that you are aware of the risks, dangers and hazards associated with the organized activity and assume all such risks, dangers and hazards, and further agree to release and discharge the organizers of the event from any liability. Leaders reserve the right of admission of members to any event and may uninvite members if they feel necessary Note that I lead CASUAL/ SOCIAL hikes group (not for either competitive hikers or weekend strollers)- as such the group accommodates to conditions and skill levels of participants to maintain reasonable pace (~2 - 2.5 miles/ hr) with stops.