Hiking Sierra Vista Open Space
Apr. 4th, 2025 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI took advantage of my partial day off today to hike at the Sierra Vista Open Space with Hawk. It's part of a new-ish open space authority that we only learned actually had parks 5 years ago. And there are only 4 parks in it so far. But two of them, Rancho Cañada and Sierra Vista, we've now visited several times each.
Why the repeat visits? Well, for one, they're close. Two, Sierra Vista offers this view basically when you step out of your car:
That's a view across the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) past San Jose to the Santa Cruz Mountains beyond.
Today was a nice day for a hike as the hills are swathed in green. The grass on these mountains east of the valley is usually only green for about 6 weeks a year. Plus, we hoped to see some wildflowers.
The views up here are nonstop.
And San Jose seems like a place you could walk to.
So much for that old song, 🎵 Do You Know the Way to San Jose 🎵. Yeah, it's right there!
Wildflowers? Yeah, we saw a few. They're in bloom right now, especially the California poppies you see in this picture. They're in bloom but not super-bloom. There was a superbloom when we hiked here 5 years ago. The weather hasn't been right for that to happen again this year.
Why the repeat visits? Well, for one, they're close. Two, Sierra Vista offers this view basically when you step out of your car:
That's a view across the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) past San Jose to the Santa Cruz Mountains beyond.
Today was a nice day for a hike as the hills are swathed in green. The grass on these mountains east of the valley is usually only green for about 6 weeks a year. Plus, we hoped to see some wildflowers.
The views up here are nonstop.
And San Jose seems like a place you could walk to.
So much for that old song, 🎵 Do You Know the Way to San Jose 🎵. Yeah, it's right there!
Wildflowers? Yeah, we saw a few. They're in bloom right now, especially the California poppies you see in this picture. They're in bloom but not super-bloom. There was a superbloom when we hiked here 5 years ago. The weather hasn't been right for that to happen again this year.
