So, I discovered an area about 5 miles from my house called Black Mountain open Space Park. I've known about this one particular trailhead for quite sometime, but due to what some may call Steve being Steve, i forgot about it.
Thankfully, my memory wad jarred last week when I decided to stop there after work and put my new New Balance MT110 to the test. What a great run this is. The Nighthawk trail is unforgiving from the start, and there is absolutely no flat sections at the start. It just goes up for about 1 mile then you have options on different side trails. The trails are mostly very loose rock and dirt which makes them fairly technical. The Nighthawk continues up for a while then intersects a fire road which leads you to the summit.
The side trails go into the canyons between all the peaks in the area, and they are beautiful. It was great to get away from the sounds of San Diego until I realized that some of the sounds were swarms of bees hanging out in the blooming bushes (not good, must run faster).
All in all, I feel blessed to have such a great trail system that has easily 20+miles of trails. It is so close to my house, that I was able to leave work, get a summit in, and pick up my daughter on time from daycare. I would get her earlier, but she is napping.
I will have reports on all the side trails and further out trails as I run and experience them.
Until later Happy Trails
Steve
