Jim and I did a quick over-nite backpack trip in Butano State Park (half way between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay) We left our house at about 10:15 am on Saturday and were on the trail beginning the hike right at noon.
It was about 5 miles uphill to the trail camp and it took us about 2:45 minutes to get there.
We saw quite a few banana slugs but no other wild life.
It had a couple funny surfaces thru some areas that looked like it might get pretty swampy in the winter. The trails were almost exclusively single track.
The scenery was beautiful - with lots of redwoods and sections of Douglas Fir and small oaks too.
There were some creeks a long the way but they were almost completely dry. We did fill up one small bottle on the way in but brought the rest of our water with us.
We ended up at the top of the coast range. Our camp site was completely in the tree canopy and had a lot of mosquitoes!
We had a little picnic when we got to our site - cheese, crackers, banana bread, grapes, nuts and an apple. YUM!
It was a little chilly because we were sweaty from the hike. So we went for another hike to warm up. About a mile from the camp site was an abandoned air strip. It was right out in the sun so we warmed up and dried off!
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| Abandoned air strip |
Back at the camp, the mosquitoes were bugging us so we set up our camp chairs in our tent and hung out in there! We continued with our tradition started last year at the Enchantments and had high tea!
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| This giant log served as a table. |
Time for dinner! We had burritos with fresh tomatoes, cheese and Taco Bell taco sauce!
There were two other campsites being used but they were well away from us. It was super quiet and REALLY dark at nite!
We packed up the next morning and it took an hour and 50 minutes to hike out.
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