I took this was a little cool 3.9 mile hike a week ago which is close to Phoenix Lake in Ross, California (Marin). Most of the hike was shaded and only walked about a mile on a fire road before really getting into the Hidden Meadow area. This is a pretty simple hike and takes you around a cool little meadow area, the climb inst to bad either about a 600 foot elevation change.

One thing about this hike is it gave me great views of Mount Tamalpais. If your looking for an easy hike I would recommend this, but be aware the first mile on the fire road can be littered with mountain bikers but you shouldn’t find any on the trail once you get going.

Below are some is a screen cap of the hike, and of course the links below will lead you to the Google Maps and Google Earth viewable options.

These Links below will show my hike path along with photos taken during my hike.

• Hidden Meadow Hike in Google Maps with Photos
• Hidden Meadow Hike In Google Earth
• Free Google Earth Application

I’m just getting around to being able to blog about this new I took last Saturday. So far this is one of my favorites that I have done and gives you a nice degree of difficulty, elevation change and great scenery. The hike is hidden in Larksupr, California (Marin County) and is about 5.3 miles round trip if you take the trail I did. I found a great book of 141 hikes for my local area, which also allows you to download the maps in PDF format and print them so you don’t have to carry the actual book around.

Baltimore Canyon (A15 hike in the book) starts out in a really nice redwood tree area and slowly climbs up to Blithedale Ridge where you can see great views of the bay and Mount Tamalpais. When I went it wasn’t to crowded which is good but I did run into a little friend (Banana Slug) slowly going across my trail. Check out Picture 42 and 43 of my hike to see.

I have exported my photos and GPS coordinates into Google maps which you can see below. You can zoom in or select a red push pin to see a thumb of a photo and clicking on the thumb shows your a full screen image. These Images are taken directly where they found in the map. I usually carry a GPS logger and my camera around to log my hikes.

Click here for a larger view of my hike along Baltimore Canyon.

Another cool thing is if you have the Free Google Earth viewer you can download my trip here for Google Earth.

“Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.”

This weekend I went on a great hike with some friend of mine and decided to put all my gps gadget stuff to use. With my gps, camera, camel pack and hiking shoes I was off to a great hike in Marin, California. Its a small 3 mile hike with various terrain and not to much difficulty. I snapped a few photos, most of them are just of the hills in Deer Park but the cool thing about all this is I now have gps data of the exact locations where I took my photos and as you can see below I placed them in google maps. Clicking on a red push pin pulls up a thumb of the photo and clicking on that image brings up the full images in another window.

I also put together a full sized map of the hike with the photos here.

I plan on doing this on most hikes and hopefully next time ill write a bit more descriptions about the photos and locations.