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Point of No Return & Ringtail Cat Trail via Madrone Trail is a 5.4-mile out-and-back in Las Trampas Regional Wilderness near Alamo, CA. It climbs 1,147 ft, with sections as steep as 25% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 17/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi381 – 863 ft · steepest grade: 25%5.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 37.82470, -122.03023
Nearest town Alamo, CA

Directions

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Point of No Return & Ringtail Cat Trail via Madrone Trail

5.4 mi · ▲ 1,147 ft · 2 hr 22 min

Elevation 381–863 ft

Out & Back · Las Trampas Regional Wilderness

Trailhead: 37.82470, -122.03023

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:08 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
  2. 0.2 miTurn left onto Madrone Trail, heading N.
  3. 1.1 miContinue straight onto Point of No Return, heading N.
  4. 0.4 miTurn left, heading N.
  5. 0.3 miTurn right onto Ringtail Cat Trail, heading W.
  6. 0.6 miReach Point of No Return, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  7. 0.6 miTurn left, heading S.
  8. 0.3 miTurn right onto Point of No Return, heading SE.
  9. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Madrone Trail, heading SE.
  10. 1.1 miTurn right, heading S.
  11. 0.2 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:08 PM

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