踩遍天下

去年前介紹過一家單車旅行社的泰國柬埔寨遊路線，日前讀一本戶外活動雜誌又介紹了另一家專搞全世界各地辛苦探險團的公司：Tour d'Afrique,不少路線要露營度宿！我對其中中國（上海至香港段）及北美（Banff至Helena段）都頗有興趣。

Off the bike and hike

I suppose most cyclists enjoy the nature and don't mind to hike once in a while. Hiking uses a different muscle group than cycling and it would be good to train those too.

Our go-to trail was the Dish near Stanford. As it's under maintenance for the past month, we tried some alternatives too. Rancho San Antonio has become our new favorite. The Wildcat loop takes us about 2 hours and that's ideal.

And we are also looking into venturing outside the Palo Alto-Los Altos area. The criteria includes: (1) must have some shades (2) must have some elevation change, e.g. Rancho San Antonio has ~800 ft (3) ~2-6 miles, i.e., 1-3 hr. (4) good scenery. We have already been to Big Sur, which is beautiful (and tough!) I think we should try these in the future:
[SF] Mount Sutro, 1.8 miles
[San Bruno] Junipero Serra County Park, 2.1 miles
[Oakland] Redwood Regional Park, 3.7 miles, 700 ft elev. chg.
[Palo Alto] Monte Bello, 6.5 miles, 1000 ft elev. chg.
[Cupertino] Stevens Creek County Park, 6.1 miles, 1100 ft elev. chg.
Angel Island, 5 miles
 
Bay Area Hiker is a very informational website with all trails ranked by difficulty.