Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/12/23
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Fitzgerald Marine Preserve
Categories
Fitzgerald Marine Preserve to Pillar Point & Back Hike
As part of our new COVID-19 protocols, walkers must sign up on our NEW myHPREC website in advance and supply their emergency contact information electronically. This is necessary to avoid close contact on the day of the walk and to make sure the maximum of number of walkers for each session is 30 (including the walk leader).
We will have a major revision to our Fitzgerald Marine Preserve to Pillar Point & Back hike. The bridge between the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve parking area and the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve bluffs is out. For this reason, we will start our hike at the Moss Beach Distillery.
If you will meet at the carpooling location, it is at 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto. This is the current headquarters of HP Inc. To get there: Take I-280 to Page Mill Road (PMR). Proceed 2.1 miles east on PMR across Junipero Serra Boulevard/Foothill Expressway to Peter Coutts. At the intersection, turn right into the entrance and through the gate. Turn right into the second entrance to parking and park. This is HP parking; do not park in the Tesla parking area. Please note: There are no restroom facilities so please make plans accordingly. It should take about 50 minutes to reach our hike starting location of the hike at Moss Beach Distillery.
If you will drive directly to the our hike starting location of the Moss Beach Distillery, take I-280 northbound; use the 2nd from the right lane to take exit 33 for State Route 92 West toward Half Moon Bay. When CA 92 ends, turn right onto CA-1 N/Cabrillo Highway N, then drive 5.6 miles, and turn left onto Cypress Ave and follow the signs to the Moss Beach Distillery. After turning onto Cypress Ave., bear left onto Airport St. Then turn right onto Marine Blvd. Then turn left onto Beach Way and take it to the Moss Beach Distillery and park. The address is 120 Beach Way, Moss Beach, CA 94038-9737
If you want to stop at the facilities at Fitzgerald Marine Preserve, go 6.2 miles up CA-1 N/Cabrillo Highway N and turn left onto California Avenue. When California Avenue ends, go right on Lake Street and into the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve parking area. After using the facilities, proceed back to highway 1, go right onto it. In 0.6 miles, turn right onto Cypress Ave and follow the directions above.
We will hike the bluffs heading south from the Moss Beach Distillery restaurant, and eat lunch by the beach at Pillar Point where the Mavericks surf contest used to be held. On the way back, we will look down on the Half Moon Bay airport. The bluff is climbed twice. The rest of the hike is fairly level. None of the hike is on sand, but you can put your feet in it while eating lunch.
Expect the weather to be cool and windy. The expected highs are in the mid 60°F.
The rest of the web page does not reflect these changes.
If you want to cancel your reservation/sign up:
Call or send an email message to the event leader and inform the leader of your cancellation. (leonaandjohn@att.net or call John McCabe at 650-799-6577)
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.