Kindle Once Again - this time for Walk, Hike, Saunter

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 Last time I did this was Dec 2017. At the moment, memory of how to do it is pretty foggy, but luckily I have my earlier blog posts on this to refresh my memory so printing them out to review. (look for Kindle label in this blog to find).  This book is a little easier than the others - text and inline photos, a table of contents, but no index. Susan has promised it will be out in two and a half weeks, so will try to do that. My immediate issue is that I remember that I have to make some changes to the Indesign file before putting out the epub file that I will update for Kindle, but don't remember quite what they were. Pausing to read my prior posts, and to review Kindle code for Healing Miles . From my 2012 notes I saw that to get reliable chapter breaks, each chapter had to be a separate xhtml file. The default of Indesign is to put out one big xhtml file, but it will break on a style, so I need to be sure the current Indesign document (for Walk, Hike, Saunter ) has an appro...
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Short but beautiful hike to Green Valley Falls

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This was a rare opportunity to once more see Green Valley Falls, tucked away in a Vallejo watershed,  gated, locked, signed and unavailable unless you can get into one of the seldom let Doris Klein hikes into the area;, through the auspices of Bay Area Ridge Trail. Doris is 84, and amazingly fit and spry, and at the present, the only person allowed to lead hikes in this area. It also requires reservations in advance, exact hiker names required, and when you get there, two signatures required, one on the Vallejo water district sheet and one on the Bay Area Ridge Trail sheet. If you are not on their reservation list, do not come. No one gets added.

All that said, this is a low price opportunity to see two rarely seen Vallejo waterfalls, shrouded in mist, surrounded by ferns, and a wonderful riparian experience. It makes you feel like you  are in the rain forest area, a couple of hundred miles north. You meet beyond a normally locked gate and begin trekking up this green path, dodging poison oak and stinging nettles, but mostly just brushing by spice bush. A lot of the time you are walking over the route for a twelve inch water pipe, sometimes covered, but mostly exposed in part, so you can walk on top and balance, or thread your way along the edge. You  are following a stream as you go, and several places there are small tributaries, springs really, that have bright orange algae. The water temperature of these orange areas is warmer than the stream, not cold to the touch, but not warm either.

The trail is a Y. Starting from the base, you walk up and see the waterfall at the end of one leg, then walk back and see the other one at the end of the other leg. Both are beautiful - nothing you would associate with Sonoma County.

How do you get there? I think the Bay Area Ridge Trail will have another hike in September, but don't have any details. I think the best way to get a heads up is to setup a Google News Alert for
 "green valley falls" vallejo
That should give you an email in time for the next trip.

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  1. KenJune 1, 2010 at 2:58 PM

    Sounds like a nice waterfall although not so easy to see.

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  2. DanSeptember 1, 2010 at 1:04 AM

    Did you just say short hike? I think Green Valley Falls then is good for my kids. I'd been looking for a short hike for my nephews for their first time experience and this is just amazing.

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