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CNPS Hike on Coyote Lake Park's Mummy Mountain Trail, 4/1/22 by Ronald Horii
On 4/1/22, I helped with a hike in Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch County Park in Gilroy for the CNPS-SCV (California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter). The hike was organized and led by Judy Fenerty. Stella Yang was sweeping. Vicki Silvas-Young was helping. Judy and Stella are native plant experts. Vicki knows plants, but is also a birder and leads birding hikes. I'm a photographer. I mainly know what looks photogenic. We started the hike in the Mendoza Ranch staging area, hiked the Mendoza Trail to the Mummy Mountain Trail. We took that all the way to the end of the Mendoza Trail and returned on the Coyote Ridge Trail. The total distance is 3.6 miles. The Mummy Mountain Trail is a good wildflower trail. It goes through a wide variety of environments, so it has lots of different kinds of plants and flowers. We were looking for one in particular, the rare big scale balsamroot, Balsamorhiza macrolepis: https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=1051. See what we found. After the hike, some people went to the Calaveras Trail, which runs through serpentine. It's the best wildflower trail in the park. I was too tired to go, but I've see it before. It can be spectacular: http://tinyurl.com/y2z35r6k.................................................................................The balsamroots are on this list of rare plants in Santa Clara County Parks: https://parks.sccgov.org/about-parks/natural-resource-management/rare-plants-santa-clara-county-parks.
Here's CNPS's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38417209275/.
Here's CNPS-Santa Clara Valley Chapter's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/scv.cnps/. This was the opening of the Mummy Mountain Trail and the inaugural hike on it on 4/24/10: http://www.stpfriends.org/MummyMtn/TrailDay_04-24-10.html. I used to give photography classes and lead hikes on the trail. This was the first one on 4/23/11: http://www.stpfriends.org/MummyMtn11/Class.html.
Here are more of my Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch pictures:
http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteLake-HarveyBear. Here's more information about the park and maps: https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/coyote-lake-harvey-bear-ranch-park. The Bay Area Ridge Trail runs through the park along the Coyote Ridge Trail. It's the easternmost segment of the Ridge Trail. Here's the map: https://ridgetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2019_SantaClara_CoyoteLake-HarveyBearRanch.pdf.
On 4/1/22, I helped with a hike in Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch County Park in Gilroy for the CNPS-SCV (California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter). The hike was organized and led by Judy Fenerty. Stella Yang was sweeping. Vicki Silvas-Young was helping. Judy and Stella are native plant experts. Vicki knows plants, but is also a birder and leads birding hikes. I'm a photographer. I mainly know what looks photogenic. We started the hike in the Mendoza Ranch staging area, hiked the Mendoza Trail to the Mummy Mountain Trail. We took that all the way to the end of the Mendoza Trail and returned on the Coyote Ridge Trail. The total distance is 3.6 miles. The Mummy Mountain Trail is a good wildflower trail. It goes through a wide variety of environments, so it has lots of different kinds of plants and flowers. We were looking for one in particular, the rare big scale balsamroot, Balsamorhiza macrolepis: https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=1051. See what we found. After the hike, some people went to the Calaveras Trail, which runs through serpentine. It's the best wildflower trail in the park. I was too tired to go, but I've see it before. It can be spectacular: http://tinyurl.com/y2z35r6k.................................................................................The balsamroots are on this list of rare plants in Santa Clara County Parks: https://parks.sccgov.org/about-parks/natural-resource-management/rare-plants-santa-clara-county-parks.
Here's CNPS's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/38417209275/.
Here's CNPS-Santa Clara Valley Chapter's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/scv.cnps/. This was the opening of the Mummy Mountain Trail and the inaugural hike on it on 4/24/10: http://www.stpfriends.org/MummyMtn/TrailDay_04-24-10.html. I used to give photography classes and lead hikes on the trail. This was the first one on 4/23/11: http://www.stpfriends.org/MummyMtn11/Class.html.
Here are more of my Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch pictures:
http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteLake-HarveyBear. Here's more information about the park and maps: https://parks.sccgov.org/santa-clara-county-parks/coyote-lake-harvey-bear-ranch-park. The Bay Area Ridge Trail runs through the park along the Coyote Ridge Trail. It's the easternmost segment of the Ridge Trail. Here's the map: https://ridgetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2019_SantaClara_CoyoteLake-HarveyBearRanch.pdf.
