Upcoming Orienteering

Sep 14 * Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
(C) National Orienteering Day Event: Beginner and
intermediate courses in a beautiful venue;
pending park approval
http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/2008/Presidio
ED-Vic Revenko, 415-453-3679, revenko@aol.com
CS-Vic Revenko

Oct 5 Almaden Quicksilver County Park, San Jose, CA
(C) Intermediate/advanced courses only (Orange thru Blue)
NO BEGINNER COURSES; pending park approval
http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/2008/Almaden
ED-Stephanie Maclean, 650-941-8251, maclean@netcom.com
CS-Derek Maclean

Oct 19 Calero County Park, San Jose, CA
(B) Standard seven courses; pending park approval
http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/2008/Calero
ED-Tapio Karras, 408-996-8749, tapiokarras@comcast.net
Alex Finch, 408-499-8069, alex@finch.biz
CS-Alex Finch, Tapio Karras

Robots!

ROBOGAMES 2008:
RoboGames returns this June 13-15th at Ft. Mason center.

Combat robots fight it out all weekend long. But you'll also catch the world's best walking androids and autonomous sumo robots. 70 events in all! RoboGames, the world's largest open robot competition, invites mechanics, closet machinists, artists and engineers of all ages, skills and means to compete. RoboGames is listed in the Guinness book of records as the world's largest robot competition - Don't miss this show!

Tickets are only $20 for adults, and $15 for kids.

http://robogames.net/buy.php
From art robots to autonomous navigation, robot sumo to fire fighting, even bots that tp://robogames.net/photos-all.php
http://robogames.net/news.php

Buy now!
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WIN TWO VIP PASSES! For every ticket purchased from now until May 30th, you qualify to win two VIP passe - a $1500 value. This tickets are good for all three days, but much, much, more. They get you free food, free beer, backstage access to the builders, and an invite to the exclusive Friday night party, sponsored by Lagunitas. This isn't open to the public - you'll get to abuse the cocktail robots, watch exclusive combat matches, and hang out with all the cool kids. Buy your tickets today for your chance!

Newts on Skyline Ridge

 
 
 
 

How to choose?

Guadalupe Gardens annual spring event or this:

At Hartnell College - Admission Free

11am - 3pm; Saturday, April 26th, 2008

-Talk by NASA Astronaut Dr. Jim Newman at 2pm
-Indigenous Peoples Pow Wow
-Nutrition & Healthy Living Displays and Activities
-Amphibian and Reptile Zoo
-Earth Day Demonstrations on Sustainability & Recycling
-Kids Zone Activities
-Biology, Geology, Oceanography and Zoology Displays
-The World of Astronomy
-Soccer Fun with Hartnell Coach Daniel Ortega
-Physics Demonstrations
-Mayan and Chinese Math Activities
-Solar Telescope Viewing
-Continuous Free Planetarium Shows

With ongoing multicultural performances at our outdoor amphitheater
featuring: Folklorico, Azteca, Marichi and the Alisal High Rock Band

Arrive early, pick up a schedule and enjoy this free public event
where Science, Fine Arts, Healthy Living and Respect for the Earth
converge.

How to choose?

Upcoming Orienteering

Apr 19 or 20 Stanford, Palo Alto, CA
(C) We are trying to get permission for an event this
weekend, with our preference being Saturday. More
information will be posted to the BayONet and on the BAOC
website as it becomes available.

Apr 27 Indian Valley Open Space Preserve, Novato, CA
(C) White, Yellow, Orange, Brown, and Sprint courses
(part of Spring Sprint Series)
http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/2008/Indian_Valley
ED-Gary Kraght, 415-383-4429, gary_kraght@ffic.com
CS-Scott Aster, Heidi Whalen

May 4 Shell Ridge Open Space, Walnut Creek, CA
(G) Golden Goat, Golden Kid, and Junior Goat;
pending park approval
ED-Rosemary Johnson, 510-245-9735, orosem@sbcglobal.net
CS-George Minarik

Gardening Events

UCCE Master Gardener's

Famous Spring Garden Market

Saturday, April 12

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

History Park

1650 Senter Road, San Jose

70 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, 90 varieties of sweet and mild
peppers, plus more! Speakers on the half hour, always free advice...

Day on the Farm

Saturday May 17, 2008 10 AM - 3 PM

Agricultural History Project | 2601 East

Lake Avenue | Watsonville

(831) 724-5898

Come out and try your hand at cutting wheat the old fashioned way. Enjoy
the demonstrations of making candles and soap and goat cheese. Learn how
to milk a cow with cows that don't kick. Enjoy the farm animals
including lambs, rabbits, chickens, goats, a cow and working draft
horses. This free event is designed to educate children and adults about
how their food gets to the table and the many chores of every day life
of the past. Light lunch fare will be available for purchase.

Hidden Villa

26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills 94022

(650) 949-8650

Non-Toxic Pest Control Workshop

Sunday, April 27, 9:00am to noon

Dana Center

Thomas Wittman, will give humane tools for control of gophers and moles.
$25.00

Healing Herbs

Sunday, May 18, 10 am to 1pm

Wolken Education Center $15.00

Program begins w/hike to ID and collect plant materials for use in
class.

Vernal Pools

From my e-mail: a free event in the Davis area.

link

"The Yolo Vernal Pool Open House is on Sunday, April 6th, from 9 am to 3
pm. Once a year, the former Glide Tule Ranch now part of the Yolo Bypass
Wildlife Area is open to the public for vernal pool viewing. The pools are
on property purchased by the state in 2002 and grazed under lease by local
ranchers. The area contains some of the last remaining Central Valley
native prairie habitat."

I already have plans for the 6th this year, but if I find about this in time next year, I'm there for sure.

Books about Ancient Greece

Also from an e-mail (thanks, Zelda)

Where Was Atlantis?" Brian Innes (The legend of Atlantis may have been based on the destruction of the island of Thera)
"The Mystery of Atlantis" Holly Wallace
"The Hero and the Minotaur: The Fantastic Adventures of Theseus" Robert Byrd
"How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek?" Fiona MacDonald
"You Wouldn't Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece" Fiona MacDonald
"D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths" Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
"The Librarian Who Measured the Earth" Kathryn Lasky ( re: Eratosthenes)
"I Wonder Why the Greeks Built Temples and Other Questions..." Fiona MacDonald
"Black Ships Before Troy" and "The Wanderings of Odysseus" by Rosemary Sutcliff (highly recommend)
"Archimedes Takes a Bath" Joan M. Lexau
"Inside Ancient Athens" Fiona MacDonald
"Greek Gods and Goddesses" Geraldine McCaughrean (we really like this)
"The Gods and Goddesses of Mount Olympus" Aliki
"The World in the Time of Alexander the Great" Fiona MacDonald
"Ten Kings: And the Worlds They Rule" Milton Metzer (includes chapter on Alexander)
"People Who Made History: Ancient Greece" Nicola Morgan

Books about India

Also from my e-mail:

We like the R.K. Naryan versions of the stories. We picked up a book last time we were in
India that has both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and another section on Gods,
Demons, and Others. I just checked, and Amazon also has them separately, but not
together. You can also read others reviews their. We have only red the Ramayana so far.

Another set of stories we absolutely love, though they are not an epic, are the Birbal tales.
They are stories of a king, Akbar, and his wise, clever advisor, Birbal. My husband grew up
with these stories (he's from India), and we found a wonderful selection of them by James
Mosely called __The Ninth Jewel of the Mughal Crown__. This version is playfully
illustrated. He also has an unillustrated book calleed __A Caravan from Hindustan__ which
has many more stories in it.

Books about Africa

For future reference, from an e-mail

the book series African Civilizations: Egyptian Dynasties and Nubian Dynasties

also include the beginning of two other books from the series since
in order to talk about ancient cities like Djenne-Djeno; Empire of Ghana and Empire of Mali. This is the most
complete series I have found for children about Africa.

African Beginnings by J. Haskins & K. Benson is a very brief
introduction to both ancient and middle ages African empires.

Splendors of the Past: Lost Cities of the Ancient World This book includes Sumeria, Jerusalem, Pompeii,
Kush, Ancient Khmer, Hittites, and Sinhalese Kings.


Middle ages Africa: include a lesson or two on the Copts of Egypt and Ethiopia. Egyptian Copts are considered the most likely descendents of the Ancient Egyptians.

For folktale studies I believe the rabbit tales are the oldest and
come from ancient times (Gerald McDermott's version is named Zomo but
various African cultures call him by various names). The Anansi and
tortoise trickster tales aren't quite as old but were firmly
established by the middle ages. We tend to use African folktales
retold by Verna Aardema even though her interpretations are more modern.


Ashanti peoples (under various tribal names) did exist in ancient times but the Ashanti Empire didn't reach its full power until much later. This empire made much of its wealth and reached the height of its power from the slave and gold trades of the 1600s. At our house we study the Yoruba and even the Ibo instead. Same part of Africa but they had a greater influence during ancient times than the Ashanti.

The Civilizations for Kids series lists an Ancient Africa video but it
looks like the featured empires are actually empires that reached
their power during the middle ages (ie. Great Zimbabwe).

Orienteering!

Now that the spring is getting close, orienteering is starting to look more attractive again! Here's an upcoming meet that's pretty close to home.

Emerald Hills

Redwood City, CA
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Event Type: (C) Street courses: White course and Score-O (Western
Massachusetts rules [i.e., find x of y controls])

Contact: Steve Haas, 650-281-5280, stephen.haas@jda.com

Latest Information: http://www.baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/2008/Emerald_Hills

Join us for a Street-O in the hills above Redwood City. You'll enjoy
the crooked streets and terrific views. We will have a standard easy
White course for families and beginners, and a more-advanced course: a
Western Massachusetts Rules Score-O.

The White course for families and beginners will be about 2.2 km long.

The Score-O will use the "Western Massachusetts Rules"--that is, there
will be 26 controls in the Emerald Hills neighborhood, and you will need
to collect a certain number of the controls in any combination. There
are five length categories that determine how many controls you'll need
to get:

Short any 5 controls
Medium any 10 controls
Long any 15 controls
Longer any 20 controls
Longest any 25 controls

You won't need to decide which category you are in until you finish.
But note that there is no bonus for visiting more controls than you need
(i.e., 9 controls puts you in the Short category with all those who
found only 5). The results for each category are based on time.

You can start either course any time between 10:00 AM and 12:30 PM.
Everyone must be back by 2:00 PM.

This is a good event for beginners, and short beginner's clinics will be
offered on request between 9:30 and 10:30 to give you enough information
to be able to complete the White course. Groups of 8 or more, adventure
race navigation training groups, scouts, home school groups, JROTC,
etc., please let us know at least a week in advance so that we'll have
enough maps printed.

Volunteers are needed for the clinics, Start, Finish, and results.

Come out and enjoy a winter day with us.

Driving Directions

Roy Cloud Elementary School (3790 Red Oak Way, Redwood City) is located
at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Emerald Hill Road. The entrance
to the main parking lot is off Red Oak Way. There is also a parking lot
off of Jefferson Ave, northeast of Emerald Hill Road.

From 280: Take the Farm Hill Boulevard exit, and go northeast (toward
the bay). After one mile, turn left onto Emerald Hill Road. Drive 0.3
miles, and turn right onto Red Oak Way. The school is on your left.

From 101: Take the Woodside Road (84) exit, and drive southwest (away
from the bay) on Woodside Road. Go about 1.3 miles. Follow signs to
CA-82 (El Camino Real) and drive north on El Camino Real. After 0.5
miles, turn left onto Jefferson Avenue. Go 1.7 miles, and turn left
onto Farm Hill Blvd. Continue on Farm Hill Blvd for one mile. Turn
right on Emerald Hill Road. After 0.3 miles, turn right onto Red Oak
Way--the school will be on your left.

Public Transit

SamTrans bus #274 runs hourly, leaving the Redwood City Caltrain station
at 35 minutes past the hour, and arriving at Farm Hill Blvd. and Emerald
Hill Rd. at 49 minutes past the hour.

Hansel and Gretel in Santa Cruz

aturday, February 16
Opera: 'Hansel and Gretel'
two matinees: 11:00 AM & 1:00 PM
Introduce a Young Person to the Magic and Beauty of Opera
at a FREE Family Performance of Humperdinck's Classic Opera at UCSC

Music Center Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
free admission
parking $2
doors open 30 minutes before curtain
information: (831) 459-2787

The UCSC Opera Theater and director Brian Staufenbiel open the world
of opera to children of all ages with a 60-minute workshop
presentation of Humperdinck's classic opera "Hansel and Gretel" based
on the beloved fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Hansel and his sister Gretel become lost in the woods but are
protected by many magical beings, including the Sandman and the Dew
Fairy. The lost children encounter an evil witch who has plans to cook
Hansel in her oven. But the children ultimately outsmart her and live
happily every after.

First performed in 1893 in Germany, "Hansel and Gretel" is one of the
best-loved classics of family entertainment in opera. Humperdinck's
lyrical music will transport listeners to a 'once-upon-a-time-land'
where magic is the order of the day.

Staged in English with piano accompaniment and woodwind quartet. Sara
Hancock, guest conductor. Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Music Department.

Emily Dickinson on January 30

A Celebration of the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson
An evening of dramatic readings of Dickinson's poems and writings
performed by actors from major Bay Area stages.
7p Wed Jan 30, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford
FREE and open to the public.
Sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies.

Very cool, no?

Citrus Festival in SF

Citrus Festival ~ February 2

On Saturday, February 2, CUESA kicks off the 2008 season of Market to Table programs with a Citrus Celebration. Join us in enjoying the sweet and tangy fruits grown in the California sunshine. From 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, test your citrus knowledge at our citrus variety tasting challenge! At 10:30 am, join us for a citrus farmer interview and cooking demonstration by Stephanie Rosenbaum, food writer and author (titles include Honey: From Flower to Table), featuring citrus recipes. All programs take place in front of the Ferry Building on the north side.

Astronomy

If any of you are in the Bay Area and interested in astronomy, you might like to know that there are monthly lectures at Foothill College in Los Altos that are free and open to the public (and quite a few kids attend). The next lecture, on March 5, will feature Dr. Geoff Marcy, professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley. The lectures start at 7 p.m.

Dr. Marcy led the team that discovered many of the first planets outside our solar system. Many more have since been discovered, both by Dr. Marcy's team and by others around the world, but he has found the most. He'll be talking about the hunt for these planets at this lecture. He's an engaging speaker and a truly nice guy.

If you're interested in learning more about the lecture series, go to http://www.foothill.edu/ast/SVL.htm. There's a link on that page to be added to the email list to receive notices of lectures. The lectures are held roughly monthly in the Smithwick Auditorium on the Foothill campus, and are free of charge other than $2 for parking.

If you're interested in the search for planets, Marcy's team has a website at http://exoplanets.org/. There's also an extensive article talking about the new telescope being built up at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton that will help speed the process by automating the hunt; you can read it at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=23539.

Irish Music in Santa Cruz

Special St. Patrick's Day Children's Events:

Traditional Irish Gaelic Children's Songs
Sunday, March 9th, 3pm - 4pm
Borders
1200 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

This will give children and adults a chance to learn some fun, easy
songs in the Irish language, and some games, too!

Traditional Irish Gaelic Children's Songs
Sunday, March 16th, 2:30pm
Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Avenue
Capitola, CA

This will give children and adults in Capitola (or who missed it the
first time, or who want more) a chance to learn some fun, easy songs
in the Irish language, and some games, too!

Irish Storytime with Songs
Monday, March 17th, 11am
Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Avenue
Capitola, CA

AWARD WINNING CELTIC SINGER TO PERFORM FIRST WEST COAST CONCERTS

AT BORDERS IN DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ

Award Winning Celtic Singer, Harper, and Songwriter, Caera will give
three free, family-friendly concerts of Celtic music at Borders, 1200
Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, on three Fridays: January 25th, February
8th, and February 22nd, from 7 PM - 8:15PM.

These special performances will be Caera's first public concerts on
the west coast of the US. Caera, who recently relocated to Santa Cruz
from the Boston area, has been performing and teaching for the past
five years throughout the New England area as well as across the
Midwestern states, as far south as Georgia, and as far away as
Ireland. Caera is an accomplished musician with five albums to date,
one of which made it onto the ballot for the 2008 Grammy Awards in
October.

Caera is a singer, harper, and writer, who is very passionate about
the music, languages, and history of her Gaelic ancestors. She plays a
clairseach; a brass-strung harp modeled after medieval harps from
Ireland, and sings in all three Gaelic languages (Irish, Scottish, and
Manx) as well as other languages.

Throughout her career as a performing musician, Caera's singing has
often been compared to that of Loreena McKennitt, Moya Brennan (of
Clannad), Nóirín ní Riain, Karen Mattheson (of Capercaillie), Karan
Casey, and many other notable singers in Celtic music. Audiences rave
about her performances, "Now I know the angels sing in Gaelic," and "I
would walk on broken glass to hear you sing." Caera is an
award-winning sean-nos singer who competed this past November in an
t-Oireachtas, the national competitions held entirely in the Irish
language, every fall, in Ireland. In 2005, she was awarded Five Gold
Medals at the 25th annual Columbus Feis, in Ohio, celebrating the
culture and heritage of Ireland and the Irish people.

In performance and in teaching, Caera strives to make the Celtic
languages, especially Irish Gaelic, accessible and easy for anyone to
understand -- whether they only speak English or not, whether they are
familiar with traditional Celtic music or not, and whether they have
Celtic ancestry or not.

If you are looking for something new and interesting in Santa Cruz,
these concerts offer insight and information about Celtic music, as
well as a peaceful and powerful experience of it. Caera's concerts
are fun, relaxing and educational for the whole family.

These events are free and open to the public. Caera's CD's will be
available for sale at each concert. For more information please call
831-332-7609, or visit www.caera.info.

www.caera.info
www.myspace.com/IrishHarper

Endangered Species in GGNRA

That's Golden Gate National Recreation Area (I think)

This is a new program they're doing this year that has a lot of interesting events. Here are the links:

Endangered Species Big Year Page

Calendar page

The only drawback for me is that many of these events start relatively early, a good two hour drive from our house. Still, I think we'll be trying to get to as many as we can.

Orienteering in Berkeley

An announcement of an upcoming event from the Bay Area Orienteering Club:

Tilden Park

Berkeley, CA
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Event Type: (B) Regular 7-course BAOC event

Contact: Evan Custer, 925-254-5628, evan.custer@baoc.org

Latest Information: http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/2008/Tilden_Park

NOTE: THE EVENT DATE WAS STATED INCORRECTLY PRIOR TO THE OCTOBER
MONTHLY MAILING. THE DATE ABOVE IS CORRECT.

This will be the second use for our Tilden map. The "Swiss Mountain
Goat", Martin Kunz, will be the course setter. I'm sure he will produce
some interesting and challenging courses.

Assembly Area

Tilden is a very central park and is convenient to most Bay Area
residents. This is one of the main reasons we decided to map Tilden--
because of its close-in location. The assembly area will be at the same
place as last year at the Mineral Springs Group Picnic Area on Wildcat
Canyon Road. There is probably room for 60 cars in the parking lot, so
please park close together. Late comers may have to park on the
shoulder of the road (see below) or in several other relatively close
parking lots.

There will be remote Starts and a remote Finish. There will be two
Start areas: one for the Green, Red, and Blue courses, and another for
the other courses (White through Brown). There will also be a remote
Finish. It is about a 5-minute walk to the start areas, and about a
5-minute walk back from the Finish to the assembly area. Because of the
remote Finish, IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER TO DOWNLOAD YOUR SI
STICK AT THE BLUE EP TENT NEAR REGISTRATION BEFORE YOU GO HOME.
Otherwise, we will not know that you have returned, and may have to
start a search party for you after the courses close.

Registration

Registration will be at the assembly area at Mineral Springs. Remember
that registration is a two-step process. First you fill out the forms
and pay your fee. Then, do not forget to go to the blue EP tent to
enter in the computer before you go out on your course. This is
important, because this is the main way we keep track of people who are
still out on the courses. We do not leave the area until everybody has
been accounted for, so for safety reasons, please check in at the EP
tent BEFORE going out on your course. It also significantly improves
the speed of the download process after your run if you are entered in
the computer before you download your results.

Map

The terrain was field checked and drawn in 2006 by Russian mapper
Vladimir Zherdev. The map is quite good. All maps will be printed at
1:10000 scale, and the contour interval is 5 meters. Standard IOF
orienteering symbols are used. Zherdev frequently uses the dotted-line
symbol for distinct vegetation boundaries, which many other mappers,
particularly in this country, do not use.

Terrain

Tilden Park is much like most of our Bay Area terrain: steep, lots of
rough open with scattered areas of pine and eucalyptus forest, and a
moderate amount of fight, which is mainly poison oak, brambles,
blackberries, and dense coyote bush. In the summer, the meadows are
filled with stickers, burrs and thistles, but by January the hostile
vegetation usually dies back and the rains beat it down, so there it
will not be a significant problem. The poison oak is mainly in the
reentrants, but since the event will be in the winter, the plant is not
quite as noxious as in the early spring; however, poison oak prevention
techniques should still be utilized.

The contour detail is relatively bland. Most of the competition area
will be on the side of a large hill, the park border being the ridge
line. There is a relatively dense trail network. There are some rock
features, many of which will be used as control points. The vegetation
is quite well mapped, particularly since the map is new.

Courses

All seven standard courses will be offered: White, Yellow, Orange,
Brown, Green, Red, and Blue--and also a Long Orange (adventure racer
training course). Course statistics will be published closer to the
event date, after the courses have been finalized.

Martin Kunz has been working hard on designing some interesting and
challenging courses. This year, the emphasis for the Green, Red, and
Blue courses will be on route choice. These courses will have several
long legs that have some challenging route choices. Your success will
largely depend on choosing quickly which route is optimal. Martin is
using some fresh terrain for the first half of those courses.

Also, because he wanted to use different terrain for the White and
Yellow courses, there will be remote Starts and a remote Finish. This
is so that the younger participants will not have to cross Grizzly Peak
Road in the middle of their course. The walk to the Starts is about 5
minutes, as is the walk back from the Finish. Because of the remote
Finish, IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER TO DOWNLOAD YOUR SI STICK AT THE EP
TENT at the assembly area near registration after you return from your
run.

Electronic Punching

Electronic punching (EP) will be used on all courses. If you do not own
your own EP card (finger stick), you may rent one at the event. For
participants who have never used EP before, look at our User's Guide to
Electronic Punching (there's a link on the event Web page).

Beginner's Clinics

Beginner's clinics will be offered between 9:30 and 10:30, depending on
the demand. These short introductions to orienteering provide all the
information you'll need to complete a beginner (White or Yellow) course.

Volunteers

We will need volunteers to staff the usual tasks: starts, finish,
beginner's clinic, control pickup, etc. Please contact me to sign up.

Driving Directions

There are many ways to reach Mineral Springs in Tilden, depending on
what direction you are coming. Since you are an orienteer, you may want
to check a map. Here are a few possibilities:

From the east, take the Orinda exit from Rte. 24, and head north toward
Orinda Village and Richmond on Camino Pablo. Go about 3 miles, and turn
left at the signal onto Wildcat Canyon Road (Bear Creek Rd. goes off to
the right toward Briones Park), and wind your way up Wildcat for 3.1
miles. The Mineral Springs Picnic Area will be on your right, past
Inspiration Point, but before you get to the Botanical Garden.

If you are coming from the north or from Berkeley, it probably will be
easier to go up to Grizzly Peak Rd., east on Shasta, and right on
Wildcat Canyon Road past the Botanic Garden, and turn left into Mineral
Springs Picnic Area.

In the winter, the park closes South Park Drive, so if you are coming
from the south on Grizzly Peak Rd. from Claremont or Fish Ranch Rd., you
will not be able to take South Park Drive down to Wildcat Canyon Rd.,
but should continue to Shasta Road, and turn east.

If the lot is full, and it probably will be if it is a nice day, you may
park on the shoulder of the road if your vehicle is COMPLETELY off the
road and is not in a "No Parking Zone".