New parallel trail added recently

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User: Riff Raff - 1/16/2010

Location: Trailhead Park

Rating: 4stars
Difficulty: 2stars  Solitude: 2stars
Miles Hiked: 2.50 Miles  Elapsed Time: 2 hours

Comments:

Been awhile since I'd been out here, but since then a new trail has been cut that goes parallel to the previously documented trail. When you go down the hill from the paved portion, you'll encounter a T-junction at the bottom of the hill (by the second sewer cover you'd see). If you take a right, you'll be on a new trail that goes the same direction but farther up the hill. This was particularly nice sinced it'd been raining recently, which turned the lower trail into a creek.



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