Finally, the Los Gatos Creek Trail

Before I get tired of blogging, I'm about to go for the first 3 posts in a 24 hour period experience of my life...

My sister Amy and I decided we were going to go on some kind of hike this weekend. While we searched for apartments on craigslist, many of the places mentioned they were close to the "Los Gatos Creek Trail", so that seemed like a good place to start in terms of local hiking.

The night before the big hike, I was meeting (or perhaps more correctly stated "drinking") with members of my kickball team and they all insisted that I should not complete the hike and instead go on the kickball Caltrain Pub-Crawl with them. Their reasoning included allegations that the LGCT was the home of many rapists and quite boring. I figured I could deal with the second case as I have in my life previously seen very boring things, but it might be construed as unwise to walk down a trail through the den of rapists. I did a quick Google search for "los gatos trail rape" and when it came up sufficiently empty, I decided to carry on. Of course, the oportunity cost of a bit of family time was being on a train with a bunch of hot drunk girls.

So lets actually talk about the trail now. Our goal was to hike from Campbell to Los Gatos, which was a bit more than 6 miles. I will provide a picture collage to avoid having to type a ton here:


This trail could be called the "Highway 17 Trail" just as well as the highway was right next to us for more or less the whole time.


The first of many dams along the trail. The goal of spending a lot of state and federal money to build this trail include flood control. This concrete block is making my place in Campbell much safter.


This is the algae that is growing in each of the locks along the trail. Not very appetizing.


Most of the trail looked like this.


The trail walked past Vasona Lake, which is a nice big county park. It had some very nice views.

So what did I learn from this trip, blogger could use better photo management editing software.