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Family Hike on Save Mount Diablo’s Mangini Ranch

Explore a part of the Diablo wilderness not yet open to the public but right in your backyard!  Save Mount Diablo's Mangini Ranch is a 208-acre property that includes the headwaters of Galindo Creek, rolling grasslands, oaks, buckeye trees and a rare desert olive grove. Visit a secret spring and keep your eyes out for bobcats and coyotes looking for breakfast, plus burrowing owls, quail, and many other feathered friends.  This is a two hour, four mile hike with one strenuous climb. Bring layers, heavy rain cancels. 
Save Mount Diablo’s 2014 Family Hike series has free family friendly hikes on the 4th Saturday of the month at various locations.
Meet: Save Mount Diablo’s Mangini Ranch. From Ygnacio Valley Rd head south on Crystyl Ranch Dr. in Concord. We’ll meet at the hiker gate on Crystal Ranch Dr. between Autumn Oak Cir and Rolling Woods Way. 
Leader: David Ogden
RSVP and info at smdinfo@savemountdiablo.org 
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