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Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve Hike 5/5/12 by Ronald Horii
This is a memory from 2012 from the early days of Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve. It was purchased by the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (what the OSA was called then) in 2010. This was the very first hike public hike there, at least that I went to. It was led by docent Cait Hutnik, with help from Mike Hundt. I wasn't an OSA docent then, so I was just there to check it out and take pictures. It's interesting to compare what it looked like then, when nothing was developed, to what it looks like now. There were no trails, so we followed existing ranch roads. We stayed on the valley floor, though one part of the group went up the big serpentine hill, something we can't do now because it's too sensitive.
For pictures of Coyote Valley over the years, see: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteValley
The Grand Opening for the preserve was on 6/27/15:
http://www.stpfriends.org/CoyoteValleyOSP_06-27-15/Opening.html
Here are more information and maps of the preserve:
https://www.openspaceauthority.org/visitors/preserves/coyotevalley.html
Album created 9/26/17
This is a memory from 2012 from the early days of Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve. It was purchased by the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority (what the OSA was called then) in 2010. This was the very first hike public hike there, at least that I went to. It was led by docent Cait Hutnik, with help from Mike Hundt. I wasn't an OSA docent then, so I was just there to check it out and take pictures. It's interesting to compare what it looked like then, when nothing was developed, to what it looks like now. There were no trails, so we followed existing ranch roads. We stayed on the valley floor, though one part of the group went up the big serpentine hill, something we can't do now because it's too sensitive.
For pictures of Coyote Valley over the years, see: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteValley
The Grand Opening for the preserve was on 6/27/15:
http://www.stpfriends.org/CoyoteValleyOSP_06-27-15/Opening.html
Here are more information and maps of the preserve:
https://www.openspaceauthority.org/visitors/preserves/coyotevalley.html
Album created 9/26/17
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