[pct-l] Cows

[Ken Powers]

Here is the link from East Bay Regional Parks District:
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ohlone.htm . You might also be interested in 
other EBRP trails. We find them to run from short and easy to killers. And 
we keep learning more about the East Bay on their trails.

The hike from Del Valle to Sunol is 20 miles and a killer hike. Lots of 
elevation gain and usually quite hot in the summer. Bring lots of water! The 
entry fee to the park (either Del Valle or Sunol) get you a map and the 
permit to hike the trail.

I started hiking it with boy scouts, then Marcia found out about the hike. 
It is now one of our favorite training hikes. We even met Flying Brian on 
top of Rose Peak one of our last times out there.


I tell Marcia when she gets old and loses her memory we will start at Sunol 
and hike to Del Valle to camp. That night I will erase the pictures on her 
camera and the next day we will hike back to Sunol. We will camp there and I 
will erase the pictures on her camera. Do you see where this is going? Every 
few days we will drive to town and re-supply. We are sure she will say, " 
This area reminds me of somewhere we have hiked before. But I don't remember 
where."

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurt Boutin" <kboutin at gmail.com>
To: <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cows


Does anyone have a link to the Ohlone trails?  I'm also in the Bay
Area and interested in local trails.

Kurt

On 8/30/06, Ken Powers <kdpo at gottawalk.com> wrote:
> Ahh, yes the Ohlone cows. They were written up in the local newspaper as
> being agressive toward hikers. The last time Marcia was out there she 
> asked
> about the cows and got this reply from the ranger, "I am not allowed to
> comment on the cows."
>
>
> A technique we have used with these and other cows, horses and bears when
> they seemed overly friendly or mildly aggressive is to throw up our arms 
> to
> look bigger and shout loudly "NO!" This seems to stop them in their 
> tracks.
> Then we calmly and quickly walk thru the area. But we have learned to look
> back to ensure that they are not following us, too.  We used this 
> technique
> on the ADT to stop many dogs who wanted to join our hike. They were like 
> us,
> they GottaWalk.
>
> Ken
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Keener" <jlkeener at yahoo.com>
> To: <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net>; <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cows
>
>
> Warning - hiker story
>
> I think it was January 2004 and I was backpacking with
> a friend in the Sunol/Ohlone Wilderness in the San
> Francisco Bay Area. It snowed! Oh, and we got lost.
> We came upon a herd of cattle straddling the trail and
> they separated as we approached - two cows heading
> down the trail ahead of us. After about a quarter of a
> mile, the cows began mooing plaintively and looking
> back at us. That's when we heard the herd behind us,
> gallumphing down the trail. We ran behind some rocks
> and the herd circled around us, then wandered away.
> They didn't cow us! ;=)
>
> J J
>
> --- AsABat <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net> wrote:
>
> > Advice about hiking through cows:
> >
> >
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060830/od_nm/switzerland_cows_dc_1
> >
> >
> >
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