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Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve

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Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Click for map. After a mildly harrowing experience of turning onto highway CA-35 only to find myself on miles of one lane road, I found some open space to showcase the ridge top. (Well, the road is what gets called 1.5 lane these days, but does have enough room to pass if everyone is hugging the edge really tight. It got more relaxing to drive after an large intersection where it regained a yellow line down the middle.) Sunny ridge top trail with views leaves me happy to just select a random loop and see what's there. For hints, there's a couple lakes and a named knoll along the loops. I am once again along the domain of the Bay Area Ridge Trail, which I had forgotten about. I expect this is part of the largest completed segment. There's also a Bay to Ridge Trail, but the only bit of that's I'll be on is the bit crossing the highway from my parking spot outside the gate (just in case I'm a bit late out). There's no o...