Following our night hike in the Gilroy area, we were all a bit sleep deprived in the
morning, but still kept to our customary Friday Picnic Hike™,
this time heading to Windy Space
OSP in Portola Valley in San Mateo County. I had in mind an easy visit to a silly LoJ
summit called Spring Ridge, a short distance from the trail that ascends from our TH in
Portola Valley to the Windy Hill summit atop the crest of the Santa Cruz Mtns. As luck
would have it and the name suggests, it was rather windy today and chilly, unlike the
mini heatwave that had kept temps high in the earlier part of the week. We found the
"summit" of Spring Ridge covered in towering oak trees above a grass understory, and
just below the highpoint was a fallen oak giant that proved an excellent picnic/seating
area as well as a superb windbreak. We spent almost two hours there enjoying a few bottles
of wine, some select picnic snacks and discussing but not solving a great many of the
world's problems. Next time we might even go to the top of Windy Hill, provided it's not
too windy, of course...
