I did six miles from Henry Coe’s Dowdy Ranch visitor center yesterday (post to come this morning).
What about the rest of you?
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I’m disappointed to report that this weekend I hiked… to the comfortable chair in the living room where I sit and grade papers. Many papers. Many, many papers.
However, I console myself by realizing that giving up a three-day weekend to grade papers is a fair trade for the three-month weekend that starts in another four weeks or so…
Dan
I thought that I already commented too much around these parts.
My long weekend hike was along the Guadalupe River checking out the public art, birds, and FanimeCon attendees. Not as wild as some hikes, but it ended up at Gordon Biersh, so I can’t complain.
To Dan, gosh that sounds awful…
I got up early on Sunday & drove from Merced to the Stanford Ave. TH & hiked up to Mission Peak. I was intending to go on to Mt. Allison & Monument Peak, however, I was fogged out! I did the same thing last year. When I reached the summit of Mission Peak last time the sun was out on the peak & I could see Mt. Allison & Monument Peak like islands above a sea of fog. I knew better than to descend into the fog in an attempt to reach either peak- I have been disoriented in the fog before! Even though I didn’t reach the other peaks (This trip or the last one) I still had a great day. BTW-when isn’t it foggy around those parts?
Don: the fog usually burns off after 11 a.m. or so in the summertime. In winter you can get caught when stormy weather moves through but if the weather’s dry and clear the view is typically fantastic.
Fog is the bane of visiting the ocean all summer, but it does tend to break up in the afternoon.
We went to Angel Island to check out the reopened Immigration Station – I thought the tour wasn’t very good and not worth the $7, but that’s just me. I didn’t have time to walk around the whole perimeter or to the top. On the website it says all trails are Open. Next time. Dinner: Zinnia, SF – an mod/expensive place to eat w/ no reservation, just ok for me.
Went back to Pt Reyes to hike Tomales Point – good hike, though cold & foggy on Sun. Saw lots of Tules Elks, beetles, & 1 skunk. Worth it. Dinner: Marshall Store in Marshall. Good clam chowder & bbq oysters!
I (w/wife) hiked Coe on Saturday. I did a post about all the Mariposa Lilies I saw. Got some photos of some rose colored, and lavender Mariposa Lilies. Check out the pix. Very foggy in the morning, didn’t burn off until well after noon. Still working on posting from my Yosemite trip.
No actual hiking this weekend.
Went to a wedding in Chilliwack, BC, visited a friend in Seattle, and helped another friend plant fruit trees in his grandfathers farm in Spokane, WA.
Saturday just an hour south on the Bay Area Ridge Trail from Skyline Gate of Redwood regional park, and an hour back.
Sunday went to Man from La Mancha at Mountain Theater on Mt. Tam – walked back to parking lot with a hundred or so other people – a little over six miles. Quite a change to be walking in a herd.
Stephanie and I spent three days hiking in the Trinity Divide west of Mount Shasta. We hit Cliff Lake and Picayune Lake and did a kick-ass hike on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Just posted seven pics, which somehow took over two hours.
Went to check out Lake Aloha in Desolation wilderness as it begins to thaw and search for some ice caves that form along part of the shore but got stopped short when my gps failed while snowshoeing, I realized I forgot my sunglasses in the car, and I spotted a cougar a couple were talking to me about 15 minutes previous. I made the best of it and camped out at a beautiful little lake called Tamarack lake
Tunnison Mountain Wilderness Study Area near Susanville. Wildflowers were numerous and varied, weather lovely. Unfortunately, the locals treat the area like a garbage dump.