When   Sunday, October 7, 2007. Meet at 8:15am for an 8:30am start. Carpool will leave at 7:45am from the Park & Ride Lot at Page Mill Road and Highway 280.

Where   Long Ridge Open Space Preserve, Skyline Blvd., Palo Alto, CA. We will start the run from the Skyline Ridge OSP parking lot, which is the same starting point as for the Skyline Ridge OSP trail run last January. There is no parking fee. More park info can be found here.

How to get there   Go west on Page Mill Road to Skyline Boulevard. Turn left onto Skyline Boulevard and drive approximately 1 mile south to the entrance of Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve parking lot, which will be on the right side of Skyline Boulevard. The runners will meet in the lot to the right of the common driveway. Google Maps estimated drive time is 26 minutes from the Park & Ride.

What   A long (about 11.2 miles) and an intermediate run (either 5.8 miles or 7.3 miles). This is a remote trail run and each runner must carry at least one water bottle. To avoid having to search for lost runners we ask every runner to find other runners of approximately the same running ability to form a group. The runners in each group must be able to account for their partners to make sure nobody is lost. As usual, there will be a potluck after the run, so please bring food or drink to share.

Why   Long Ridge offers a remarkably varied landscape that includes ridge vistas into valleys and to the ocean. Both runs will have trails in dense forests and in open grasslands. The long run will turn around at the so called Turtle Rock.