💚Green Exercise🥾Hike Mount Umunhum in the Peak Santa Cruz Mountains🏞️

Hello Natural Lovers, let's meet new friends and go on a Green Exercise Wellness Hike Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve enjoy beautiful wildflower displays fresh mountain air for our physical health and mental well-being😇

Mount Umunhum is a peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, located in Santa Clara County, California. It is the fourth-highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, after Loma Prieta, Crystal Peak, and Mount Chual. Most of the mountain is located within the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve.

Mount Umunhum is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the South Bay located within the 18,000 acre Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve in Santa Clara County, is one of the highest peaks in the Santa Cruz mountain range at 3,486 feet. From its spectacular summit, visitors can experience 360-degree views from the Pacific to the Sierra Nevada!

The gorgeous Mt. Umunhum Trail passes through dense mixed chaparral scrub dominated by shrub species including chamise, big berry manzanita, birch-leafed mountain mahogany, and poison oak (keep an eye out). It passes through Knobcone Pine Woodland and eventually enters the Coastal Woodlands habitat dominated by coast live oak, foothill pine, California bay, interspersed with Pacific madrone. The majority of the trail – approximately the upper 3.0 miles – is enjoyed under the cool canopy of these trees. Eventually, the trail emerges near the top onto steep terrain dominated by cliffs and rocky outcrops including serpentine boulders. Due to the thin soil layer developed on the serpentine bedrock, a low moisture-holding capacity, and a unique chemical composition, the serpentine areas support numerous endemic plant species, including rare flowering plants that continue to reveal themselves each spring.

Topped with its distinctive cube-like radar tower Mount Umunhum

Explore this 8.0-mile out-and-back trail near New Almaden, California.
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/mount-umunhum

⏰Meet time: 12:30pm 🥾Hike time ⏰1:00m
Sierra Azul Parking Lot
At Mount Umunhum Summit Area, San Jose, CA 95120
GPS: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rwZmtKWhvX8tXkx98

I have applied for the MROSD Hiking Permit hike at Mt. Umunhum for our Club. Yay!✌️😃
Parking: Free

🎒 Bring good vibes🌿
✅Smiles for miles😊
✅Water, Snacks, ​Sunscreens, Hiking Poles
✅ Wear Sturdy Hiking Shoes, Layers
✅​Your camera/phone for some incredible photos
✅​A fantastic, positive attitude!
Positive vibes: We’ll need them for the last stretch back to the car.
Water+ Snacks: Fuel for the fun (and maybe a chance to bribe your legs on the climb).
Hiking Poles: Can help with stability on the descent and ease strain on the ascent.

Distance: 5 or 8 miles options
Route: Out & back
Elevation: 850ft or 1,200 feet Down and (YES! you guessed it) Back up!
Difficulty: Moderately+ Challenging! Think “Oh, this is lovely!” on the way down and “Who needs the gym?” on the way up.
Duration: 3–5 hours, depending on how many photos we stop to take.
Views: Amazingly Beautiful!
Wear: Sturdy Hiking shoes: No flip-flops on this one, folks! Layers for changing weather
Dog: No

🚗Encouraging carpooling if you know each other well for everyone's safety. Please contact each other in a private message, NOT on the message board, Thanks! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/z6875a

After hiking an optional social dinner???
We'll decide after the hike Place TBD...

💚 Support Our Group!
Thanks for joining our wellness club event, it does take time and money to make it happen. Thank you for being prepared and supportive 🌿
Our hikes, dinners, and events run thanks to member support. A small contribution is appreciated to help keep our wellness community active and fun! Thank you for helping us make every event special!

Requested contribution suggested amount $5-$20 to keep the club going!
​Dr. Heidi will ask for the contribution during event check-in. Accepted in person. Your support helps cover the many behind-the-scenes efforts that make these events possible, including route scouting, Meetup platform fees, permits, communication with park staff and members, and planning hikes, dinners, and road trips...
This community exists because of the support and kindness of its members.

The organizer reserves the right to ask a participant to depart!
If they refuse to contribute or follow event guidelines. This ensures our community remains a positive and respectful space for everyone.
Thank you for helping keep our wellness community positive, respectful, and active. 🌿

Our meetup events have a very positive impact on people's lives, people meet, fall in love💘 meet new friends, HAPPY, better health, less stress, anxiety, depression, isolate being alone and got extra bonus for LOVE ​💞

DO NOT ATTEND if you're experiencing any cold or flu symptoms, have a compromised immune system.

LIABILITY WAIVER: By signing up for the wellness hiking event, you hereby release its organizers, hosts, and participants from any and all liability, claims, demands or causes of action that you now have, or may have in the future, for illness, injuries, damages, and/or economic loss of any kind or nature, arising in whole or in part out of the activities, advice, or information contained herein. You agree to full responsibility for your own health issues.

Hike at YOUR OWN RISK. Open trails aren't necessarily free of hazards--by entering the wilderness, you assume responsibility for your safety and must use good judgment.

Participation in this event is strictly voluntary! The event host/organizer assumes no responsibility for any injury, damage, or loss you may incur. You join and hike entirely at your own risk.

DISCLAIMER: By participating in this wellness hiking event, you understand that Meetup event Host/Organizer assumes ABSOLUTELY NO responsibility and you have to assume all at your own risk of injury, damage, and economic loss, without limitation, and release host/Organizer of all liability.

If anyone wishes to join our hike team, please answer the RSVP question every time for everyone's safety in the group. If you are unable to send me a message confirming that you are in good health and you are able to hike 5-8 miles without health issues we CANNOT approve you come to the hiking event.
Please don't just walk in Thank you for your cooperation!

I'm looking forward to meeting, hiking with you and making good memories together.
Yours in good health! Dr. Heidi💝

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