Earthquake Trail

Earthquake Trail
.6 miles
1 hour
Start: Bear Valley Visitors Center
End: Bear Valley Visitors Center Includes: Bear Valley Visitor Center, Earthquake Trail

Hike 52
December 7, 2013

I headed out with Desmond to walk the Earthquake Trail. He was ready!

First things first: scale a tree.

We passed the picnic benches and a beautiful old oak.

Desmond surprised me by stopping to read the interpretive signs aloud. His reading is getting very good.

He already knew about continents moving and is comfortable with that; you really have to be if you live in California.

He ran between signs. I wish I wanted to run like that.

He measured the number of feet between fences with his feet. This gap is evidence of the 20-foot jump the Point Reyes peninsula took northwest back in the earthquake of 1906. We were standing right on the San Andreas Fault.

Then there was more running and some yelling.

Desmond was excited to know that the drawings on the signs were done by kids who went to his school.

I followed him around the rest of the half-mile loop. The trail begins and ends at the bathrooms and a drinking fountain.

Desmond and I have been on this trail a number of times. I could take him in the stroller when he was really little because the trail is paved and now it's good for an older reader-runner-yeller interested in earthquakes.