It looks like his coming week will be the start of a heat wave.  On Friday, March 20th, the date of our next hike, the forecasted high in SLO is 89°.  That temperature would be uncomfortably warm for a hike over six miles with total UP waypoints of 1255 feet.  Rather than wait until the last minute and risk not everyone getting the word, I am going to change the hike now.  We will push the Cal Poly hike out two weeks to April 3rd and instead hike the Cayucos to Harmony trail on 3-20-26.  The forecasted high for Cayucos is a cooler 84° and the hike is not as strenuous.  It will be 4.3 miles with an UP waypoint total of 422 feet.  The hike should take about 2 hours. 

 

We last completed the full Harmony Headlands hike in May of 2022.  There was an attempt made in February 2024 that got rained on.  We will meet on Friday 3-20-26 in the Headlands parking lot in Cayucos (pictured below) off Hwy 1 at 8:30 AM.  From there we will proeeed west toward the ocean and the village of Harmony with a bustling population of 18.  There is a map below which also shows the walk along the ocean.  There is even a restroom on the trail left over from an abandoned ranch bunkhouse  

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To Get There head north of Morro bay on Hwy 1.  The parking lot is on the left 1.1 miles north of Villa Creek Road. The lot is diretly opposite a Linn's billboard.  The travel time from SLO to Cayucos is about 30 minutes..