April 16

Back to Bouquet Canyon Road, Gill dropped us off for our 13 mile ride to San Francisquito Canyon Road at Green Valley.

We climbed up and down on sand type tread with not much but craggy brush except a view of a grand farm with sprawling fields in the valley below.

We arrived at a trail register where a trail angel had set up real chairs, resting areas and water under the bows of what looked like dwarfed live oak trees.

It was funny how comfortable the chairs felt after only 8 or 9 miles in the saddle! We fed the horses some lunch and rested in the shade for about 30 minutes. There wasn’t any graze for the horses, but they had water just before our rest stop so they ate peacefully and dozed off. With just 6 or 7 miles to go we mounted up and rode down from 4,300’ to 3,000’ along a lovely live oak shaded section

that took us to San Francisquito Canyon Road. There we crossed over to the ranger station where Gil had parked the trailer to haul us back to Terry’s