![]() ![]() Please be cautious and wear the correct clothing and shoes.” The climb down to the falls is not maintained by the National Park service and can be dangerous. There's a little rock climbing involved at the end. “There is usually an arrow made of rocks on the trail indicating where you should turn left off the official trail. It’s Thursday morning, and I’m scrolling through AllTrails - a San Francisco-based hiking app that raised $75 million in 2018 and gobbled up 30 million registered users who, like me, land on it with just about any Google search that has the word “hike” in it.ĪllTrails is the largest hiking app in the world, provides access to more than 300,000 trail maps and, apparently, has a way to turn the 14-mile hike to Alamere and back into a far more manageable 8-mile hike. “Be careful not to miss the optional unmarked shortcut trail to the falls.” Signage along the Coast Trail on the way to Alamere Falls in Marin, CA, on Thursday, Oct. This is a story about a shortcut I took to get there, and everything that happened afterward. ![]() It was supposed to be about the nearly 14-mile round-trip trek to Alamere, up Pacific Ocean-facing cliffs, through a forest of coastal pines, between a trio of lakes and down a beach you can only traverse during low tide. It was supposed to be about how those falls are raging right now following an atmospheric river that soaked California and drenched the Inverness Ridge, which drains directly into Alamere Creek and then majestically spills over a 40-foot-tall cliff onto the Point Reyes National Seashore’s Wildcat Beach. ![]()
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