After all the research, I wanted to start exploring parts of the Padre Trail, to figure out where it was, in hopes of one day hiking the whole thing. It all still exists, but nearly every bit of its path has been improved, and later bulldozed, into ranch roads and fire roads. I asked Warren…

Whenever locals went from Sonoma to Napa in the 1830-50s, whether by the trail or by the lower route around the end of the ridge, it was a commonplace occurrence, hardly worthy of mention. They basically wrote “Went to Napa and returned today.”