Saturday Walks
The Berkeley Path Wanderers Association
sponsors a series of walks that are
held on a Saturday of each month.
These walks usually begin
at 10:00 a.m. and are are
about two hours in length. Walks
may focus in a variety of local features
and usually include points of historical
interest and may include references to
the flora and fauna of the area. Walks
are free and both members and non-members
are invited to participate. Click on any name with an underline to request more information via e-mail. All other links should lead you to sites with more information.
Saturday Walks -- Summer 2008
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June 28, 10:00 AM -- Northside Gardens
Colleen Neff & Sandy Friedland
This hilly walk with some steep steps will
take us to gardens — large and small, native
and exotic, formal and wild — in all their
June glory. Meet at the Rose Garden sign on
Euclid Ave. No dogs, please.
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July 26, 10:30 AM — Garden Classrooms & Spiral Gardens
in conjunction with Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative
Beebo Turman 510 527 3773
Travel the southern end of the Santa Fe Right of Way past school gardens, where children interact with nature, to the Spiral Gardens farm and gardening center. Then return to Strawberry Creek Park for lunch. Bring a bag lunch or buy something from the nearby cafe. Meet on the paved portion of the Santa Fe Right of Way at Delaware (near Acton). This is a great opportunity for the entire family to spend a few hours together.
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August 16, Multiple departure times — Summer Path-a-Thon
Colleen Neff, Jen English, Dale Miller 510 528 3246
Three leaders will set of at different times from the Shattuck side of Live Oak Park. All will return at 12:30 for a bring-your-own pick-nick. We will provide cake and lemonade.
Jen English, who last December completed her quest to walk every street and path in Berkeley, has planned the most difficult route. She will depart the park at 9:45 via Berryman Path and hopes to cover more than 20 paths in the Berkeley hills. She will focus on the ones that wind up to the Tilden Park border and will stay south of Marin. She will include the remote Fred Herbert & Crescent Park Paths as well as some recently completed ones.
Colleen Neff, who also has walked every path in Berkeley, will leave the park at 10:15 for a more moderate walk. She will head toward Terrace and Fountain Walks to reach the rustic paths in Thousand Oaks. These include her favorite, Indian Rock, along with Yosemite, Indian Trail, El Paseo, Visalia, Vincente, Tunbridge, Chester, and more. Some of the steps on these paths are uneven and steep, but the pace will be moderate.
Dale Miller, who lives in the Live Oak Park neighborhood where he walks his dog twice a day, will lead the easiest and shortest route. He will leave the park via Shattuck Ave at 11:15 and cover some of the nearby paths, including Terrace Walk, the Short Cut and Berryman Path. Depending on the physical condition and desires of the group, he might include Fountain Walk, Mendocino Path and Indian Rock. This walk will be suitable for families though not for strollers.
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Andy Datlen and Barbara West - 510 528 3246
Tour part of the Hayward Fault observing houses, schools, playgrounds, and walkways that have been built atop the fault. Get the inside scoop on what has been learned about the fault in the past few years, and what has been done - or not done - to mitigate the effects of the next great earthquake. Our leader will be a retired EBMUD cartographer and former emergency preparedness officer who has studied the fault extensively. We will start and end at the playground in Codornices Park. There will be some steep grades, but the pace will be moderate.
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