Animated Collage of various shots from the hike.
All pictures in this post are shot with Pixel 3.
Russian Ridge Preserve is also located in Los Altos, Palo Alto, CA area. This open space preserve is around 3147 acres and has 10.4 miles of trails.
Ridge Trail is a great place to hike close to sunset, some days you can experience low fog which gets collected in the valley, sun set over that is spectacular. Interestingly I saw someone has left a chair on the trail to sit and watch sunset!
There are couple of parking lots near this preserve, one at the intersection of Alpine Rd and Hwy 35 and Silicon Valley Vista point on Hwy 35. At this vista point you can enjoy the view of entire silicon valley. Here is the map of the trails and also highlighted the trail we took. Since we started little late, we ended up doing a short hike but spent time enjoying the sun set colors.
Here are few pictures from the hike!
Shot of Santa Cruz Mountains from Ridge trail
Shot of trail with sunset colors in the background.
Shot of trail from another point before sunset
Cloud turning pink after sunset
View of mountain ranges from the Ridge Trail
Beautiful colors in the sky after sunset
Another shot of the sky with various colors after sunset
Trail with sunset colors in the background!
Shot of sun about to set
View of Mountain ranges
Fellow hiker on the trail!
I love too much hike!
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