Salt Point to Gerstle Cove Trail

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This is my first attempt to map the trail I use for this day hike:


View Salt Point Coastal Trail in a larger map

This is a video of photos taken on last year's day hike on this trail.






Gregory

California Coastal Trail Webcams

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I'm collecting webcams of the California Coastal Trail.

Muir Beach

Mendocino

Mendocino

Seacliff

Cayucos

Mahou Riviera

Venice

Machado (historical)

Huntington Beach

Huntington Beach

Huntington Beach

Balboa Island

Cardiff-by-the-Sea

Del Mar

La Jolla

Ocean Beach

Videos of Coastwalk California Walks

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Coastwalk California leads gear-free, multi-day hikes long the California Coastal Trail each summer. In 2009, we will begin registration in late January, and have posted video photo slide shows on YouTube of past hikes of some counties.

Here are the links to them:

Best of Coastwalk

Pt Reyes

Sonoma

Del Norte

Mendocino

2001 Coastwalks

2002 Coastwalks

2004 Coastwalks

2005 Coastwalks

2006 Coastwalks

2007 Coastwalks

2008 Sonoma Coastwalk

2008 Pt Reyes Coastwalk

2008 Sonoma County 2008 Dayhikes

To learn more about Coastwalk California, go to: www.Coastwalk.org

Gregory Fearon
Treasurer

Day Hikes on the California Coastal Trail

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Last Sunday, I led a hike on the California Coastal Trail. Coastwalk sent out an email notice to members concerning upcoming hikes, and several chose to join me on a walk along a stretch of Sonoma County coast in the Salt Point State Park.

ShellyRae O'Connor and her family came along, and she took some wonderful photographs of the hike. Her Flicker website
Shellerae has 597 of them posted, and they provide some great California coastal views. Since that's what this blog is all about, she has agreed to let me both link to the collection, and include some of them in a video I'm going to create. Thanks, Shelly, and here's hoping they convey half of how much fun we had.

To learn more about upcoming dayhikes on the California coast, visit Coastwalk's website at Coastwalk

Marking the California Coastal Trail

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Coastwalk has agreed to assist the California State Coastal Conservancy in their effort to place the official California Coastal Trail markers on posts along the Trail. Here is a video describing the work we are undertaking.

Collaborating with Communities of Interest

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Building support for the mission of Coastwalk means constantly looking for ways to expand the number of people who know about what Coastwalk does. Discovering groups of outdoor activists who have been to the California coast, and finding methods to help them do what they want to do - while serving to advance your activities - has to be the right way to proceed.

Geocachers are enthusiasts who place small caches of removeable treasures in locations identified by their Global Positioning System (GPS) locations on websites. Almost a thousand of them have been placed close to the California Coastal Trail, a project of Coastwalk. Coastwalk is building an interactive website which identifies the trail locations, is engaged in placing signs of the Trail, and is soliciting volunteers who can provide it with the GPS locations of the signs and other coastal access points for its website. The latest project of this blog is to bring the two groups together in an organized way.

The website of the geocachers identifies by GPS location all of the geocaches which exist, including those on the California Coastal Trail. Because the geocaching community has also collaborated with Google Earth staff, a method has been produced which downloads all of the geocache locations to an overlay on Google Earth. I have downloaded that overlay to my home computer, and am in the process of transferring to a spreadsheet the vital information about each geocache on the Coastal Trail. My objective is to assemble a database of the potential geocachers who could assist us in the development of a GPS-coded trail.

I have also produced a short video, which I have placed on Youtube. It can be seen here. I will be sending a link to those geocachers I find who have placed caches near the California Coastal Trail to invite them to our official signings of the trail.




To learn more about geocaching, go to

Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

Festival Awards

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After three months of reviewing and voting, the awards have been determined. Thanks to all who participated, filmmakers and judges.

Best of Festival Award

Awardee - Pacific Coast Highway - California (08Sep06)

Best of Division Awards
Short Film Division

Awardee - Pescadero Waves

Shoot and Present Film Division

Awardee - Tour of California's Central Coast

Feature Film Division

Awardee - Pacific Surfliner

Experienced Filmmaker Division

Awardee - Pacific Coast Highway - California (08Sep06)

Best of Class
Coastrides

Awardee - Pacific Coast Highway - California (08Sep06)

Hikes

Awardee - Lost Coast hiking

Places

Awardee - The Light House

Surfing Movies

Awardee - Deaf Surf Lesson at La Jolla Shores

Trips
(Tie)

Awardee - Central California Coast

Awardee - California Coastal Trip2

Waves and Rocks

Awardee - Heavy Surf - Baker Beach, San Francisco Dec 10, 2006

Wildlife

Awardee - Seals & Squirrels