HIdden Vallley Ridge Trail, 4.8 miles, 960Kcal, 2hr 10min

It's long weekend!!  We had to move our hiking plan to Friday in order to watch FIFA matches. So we wanted to do a hike near our home just to be back by 9AM to watch quarter finals match France vs Germany. Also for this hike, we have few more friends joined. The Sun was out by 7A.M. I personally don't like to do this trail in summer as it doesn't offer any shade. With severe drought all the grass turned golden yellow and soil is pretty dry. It gives completely different  picture during monsoon season vs in summer. On our way back home we saw a skeleton bone of a snake :).

Route: Hidden Valley Ridge Trail.
Time: 2hr 10 min
Difficulty: 3/10

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Golden hills

Snake skeleton

HIdden Vallley Ridge Trail, 4.8 miles, 960Kcal, 2hr 30min

Welcome back in new year 2014. Well, all of us are back from vacations, parties etc etc. Now it's time to set new goals for this year :). We had set a new goal to hike at least 200 miles this year. We want to start of with a small hike as it's been a while since we last hiked. The same hike we did multiple times but this time it was so depressing to look at the views. There was no signs of the small ponds which we used to see along the trail. There was absolutely no greenery anywhere. We all hiked at our own pace and caught up on other stuff. So we did not feel the hike was strenuous.

Route: Hidden Valley Ridge Trail.
Time: 2hr 30 min
Difficulty: 3/10