Author: Jack Glendening

Three Peaks Trail: a ridgeline hike to Dutra homestead

Round-trip: 7 miles & 2500 ft elevation gain
Hike date: June 11, 2017
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With the current difficulty of getting to sections of Route 1, hiking down from the South Coast Ridge Road, instead of up from Route 1, is an attractive alternative – though the slower speeds along the dirt SCCR can give long driving times.  Hearing about recent trailwork on the southern end of Three Peaks Trail, Maria Ferdin and I went out to hike it in the opposite direction, from north to south.

[Note: the trail’s official name is “Dutra Trail” – but that name has sometimes been applied to other trails running through Dutra Flat, so I am using its local unambiguous name “Three Peaks Trail”]

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Hello, world

I’ll be creating reports on Big Sur Trails & Maps I find interesting – hopefully reading about these places, sometimes remote and obscure, will inspire others to get themselves out into the Ventana & Silver Peak wilderness areas.  I did more adventuresome things in the past than I expect to do now, so perhaps will sometimes take a look back.