[pct-l] Muir Grave Site

[Jim Keener ( J J )]

Scott, 

I have hiked across the bridge, through Martinez, through the park, and up on the ridge above Muir, under the highway, and up Mount Wanda while creating tracks and waypoints for the Ridge Trail Council. 

Check their site:http://ridgetrail.org for some great hikes in the Bay Area. 

Jim Keener ( J J )

On Jan 20, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Switchback, and anybody else interested in John Muir,
> 
> I visited Muir's grave this morning before hiking Mt. Wanda and can report
> that you no longer have to cross private land to visit the site.  The
> National Parks has purchased a bit of easement that makes the whole thing
> public now.
> 
> Directions:  Take Hwy 4 to Martinez CA.  Exit at Alhambra Ave and head South
> on Alhambra Ave.  In about 1/2 of a mile you'll come to a Y with a small
> park planted with redwoods around a statue of Muir.  Veer right onto
> Alhambra Valley Rd. and drive 1/4 mile and turn left onto Sheridan Lane.
> Drive to the end and turn right and park where ever you can.  Walk south 50
> feet or so and you'll come to an old pear orchard and a small National Parks
> boundary road sign on the edge of the orchard.  It's just like the little
> ones on the PCT.  Look across the orchard and you'll see the small family
> plot, with an iron fence around it right next to Alhambra Creek.  Just walk
> on over.  John and Louie, as well several other family members are buried
> there.  When you're done, hike Mt. Wanda which as an entrance a short way
> further down and across Alhambra Valley Rd.  That is the Strentzel Meadow
> entrance.  Lots of restoration of that is going on with native vegetation
> replacing the exotics.
> 
> The pears are reported to have been planted by Muir, and the folks I was
> hiking with today, members of Friends of Alhambra Creek are grafting and
> starting new trees from these old ones.  This group has cleaned up Alhambra
> Creek over the past 20 years to such an extent that we've had a family of
> beavers building lodges and dams right in the middle of downtown Martinez
> for 3 years running now, and steel head have returned.  They've also
> restored the marshes where the creek empties into the Carquinez Straits,
> which is quite beautiful now.
> 
> Shroomer
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