good afternoon youtube so this is one of the newest segments of the san francisco bay trail
they just opened this oh a month or so ago and i haven't had a chance to get up here but
as you can see in the distance you can't see much of anything it's pretty smoky they have all the
lightning fires burning around the bay it's pretty bad air quality but
i figured down by the bay you get the wind blowing over the water and at least
i can actually see the other side of the bay there so it's just moderately bad air quality here
and i figured this would be a good time to come up and check out this new part of the trail
before the trail ended here and you had to go down bay road here into east palo alto
and there used to be a pretty big group of broken down rvs and vans and all the
homeless used to camp along there so that was pretty sketchy part of the ride but now
it's about a 1.2 miles up this way up the bay marshlands and then you kind of cut back
on the north side of east palo alto right before the bridge right past these towers here you can
probably see the dumbarton bridge so that's where i'm headed okay this is the other end of the trail
here there's probably several hundred yards of this wooden raised walkway to get over the marsh
the paved trail ends just past those transmission towers over there yeah you come across here and
then you spin around and here's kind of the start of the trail and i think it skirts the
right side of these houses here and then right over here someplace is the on-ramp to highway 84
and then you go up and over the dumbarton bridge which is just beyond those bushes there
kind of a long gradual climb might be kind of windy up there i don't know if i can
shoot any video okay youtube made it over the bridge pretty windy over the top there real
heavy crosswind and then you got three lanes of traffic doing 65 miles an hour right next to you
that's where the bike lane ends on the bridge and then you come on to this frontage road here
and then you got about another mile down the across the bay and then the trail cuts back
kind of along the foothills there really 22 miles or so to ride at least i'm riding with
the wind now so it'll be a little a little faster pretty close to the bay shore and
it came up upon this little thing there's a old dredging barge you can see where they
piled up a lot of dirt here along the side of the water you must use it from time to time to
deepen the channels here time to head on it's starting to get late
okay youtube we're back at the start of the loop here
this is where you intersect the bay trail right here i went up that way and i came back this way
about 40 mile loop took about four and a half hours i stopped for seven geocaches i found four
so it's about 18 miles up to that side of the bridge i think the bridge is about four miles
and then it's about 18 miles back down the east shore of the bay the nice thing is this side is
all trail problem is the other side is almost all pavement you're riding along a road there's more
and more trails i need to do some exploring up that side and learn all the little side trails
they're not very well marked over there so i've got to study the map i think
but anyway time to hit the trail and get home i've got about 20 minutes or so ride from here
looks pretty gloomy but it was warm it was in the middle 70s most of the day
pretty good breeze blowing and i think the air quality this way is pretty bad but
along the bay it wasn't too bad you can see a couple of miles anyway so not bad looks like a
cold winter day but it's actually middle of summer kind of strange anyway hope you enjoyed that ride
i'll cut in a picture with a map so you can see the see the route that i took
uh yeah this is a neat little ride 40 mile loop you go over the san francisco bay and back
the nice thing is you don't cross any major streets you do some pavement but it's not terribly
busy on a weekend and yeah there's the san tomas aquino creek trail and then that's the bay trail
just down down that way is what they call the 237 bikeway it doesn't quite go all the
way through there's some pavement and some bike lane so yeah lots of lots of little trails out
here once you learn which ones connect and how to get to them so anyway i gotta hit the bike
get home before it gets dark so yeah if you have any questions about that
post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching