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Article: In the green hills southeast of San Jose, a giant ranch-park. (Henry W. Coe State Park)
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- April 1, 1986
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In the green hills southeast of San Jose, a giant ranch-park
"Sierra del Chasco,' de Anza's men called the mountains that make up much of Henry W. Coe State Park. "The mountains of the joke.' Small wonder. In April 1776, the Spanish explorer was seeking a short-cut to Monterey when he crossed this portion of the Diablo Range. Far from finding an easy path, he met three days' worth of ridges and canyons.
You may echo de Anza's words as you huff and puff the trails in this park east of Morgan Hill. Some are steep enough to make one ranger warn against hiker's hubris: "We tell people coming in, if they want to do an 8-mile hike to consider doing a 6-mile ...