Mt. Hamilton Drive

On Saturday January 18th, our first drive of the year, we’ll be enjoying a two-hour drive, ending up at the historic Joseph P. Grant Park on Mt. Hamilton Road.  We will be meeting at 9:00 AM in the parking lot behind Peet’s Coffee, at 798-1 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos, 95032.  The driver’s meeting will be at 9:45 am and we’ll leave promptly at 10:00 AM.  We’ll cruise up Shannon Rd, through New Almaden, out to Monterey Rd and San Felipe Rd then onto Alum Rock Rd to Mount Hamilton Rd (Highway 130). For those who do not know the H130 it has tremendous views over the South Bay but please note it has many very tight curves and some do not have guardrails - beware!   As soon as we have passed over the first range of hills, the Mount Pleasant Foothills, we enter the valley in which Joseph Grant, a wealthy Bay…