Back in early June, when summer was starting, we circumnavigated Madonna.  We started at the Marsh Street tailhead.  For October 16th, we are going to start the hike from the Laguna Lake Dog Park.  The Parking is a lot easier and although the eventual elevation change is the same, the start is less grueling.  At Laguna the trail is longer but less steep.  Because of the longer approach trail, the total mileage is 5.7 miles versus 4.6 miles, it may take a little longer.  I am allowing 3 hours.  We lack the detail Garmin Waypoint data to run this trail through out HHI program and will be gathering it on this trip. At that point, I expect this hike to have an HHI higher than Circling Madonna from Marsh inside the Medium Hardness catagory.

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Directly below is the hike map.  We will start out at 8:30 at the parking lot for dog park at Luguna Lake.  See the parking map and photo below.  The turnoff to Laguna Park is off Madonna Road.