Another hike with Maggie

Went to Redwood Park again, this time starting at Redwood Bowl staging area. Took the West Ridge Trail to Fern to French to Tres Sendas back to West Ridge Trail and return. The West Ridge Trail is just a dirt road for its entire length in the park, but all of the other trail are footpath types. The French Trail is all through Redwoods, so very peaceful, hardly even any birds. Once you get past the Mill intersection, the ups and downs become quite steep, the shrubbier trees become fewer, and the poison oak becomes minimal. The heart of the Redwoods comes at the intersection of Star Flower trail and French, where Redwoods are almost all you can see. The entire trail was 4.09 miles, and since much of it was steep, it was reasonably challenging. Maggie was wearing her backpack with some water in each side, and she came home reasonably calm and able to bed down without a lot of fuss.

Number of dogs met on the trail: about ten. horses: two, on Fern.