Saturday, April 15, 9:00 a.m.
The ride will make a clockwise circuit around Mt. Tam. Starting at Mountain Home Inn, the route will include the West Peak; Mountain Theater on Lagunitas-Rock Spring Road; a steep serpentine descent to Bon Tempe on Rocky Ridge Road; a single-track trail along the edge of the Meadow Club; a paved road to Lake Lagunitas; a well-behaved single track around the lake (legal); and then Eldridge Grade, Hoo Koo Y Koo, and a return to Mountain Home. The ride will take five to six hours.
Stops along the way will include Double Bow Knot (large fir, three kinds of manzanita, chinquapin); the base of Fern Canyon (redwood, undergrowth plants, chain fern); chaparral shrub flowers on Railroad Grade (yerba santa, several ceanothus, chaparral pea); serpentine chaparral on Rocky Ridge Road (leather oak, Tamalpais manzanita); the seep at Lake Lagunitas (oracle oak, shooting star, California saxifrage, mistmaiden, spoon-leaved sedum); and Eldridge Grade (California nutmeg).
Leader: Bruce Homer-Smith bruce@quartetsystems.com or 650-948-9090
Additional parking available up the dirt road just past the inn.