We had some fun with this a few weeks back, so what the heck, how about telling the class where you went most recently.
Rebecca at calipidder.com is excused because she did such a nice write-up on her Death Valley camp-out over Thanksgiving.
We had some fun with this a few weeks back, so what the heck, how about telling the class where you went most recently.
Rebecca at calipidder.com is excused because she did such a nice write-up on her Death Valley camp-out over Thanksgiving.
5th annual Thanksgiving day trip to Pine Valley in the Ventanas to pack in Thanksgiving dinner to Jack English:
http://www.fedak.net/albums/PineValley07.html
Happy holidays everyone. Hoping to get much more hiking done in 08. *Way* too much time in the office in 07.
Amen, John. 12 hour days, broken trail chair….I can hardly wait to get out in the mud as soon as possible. The chair should be ready next week, and I’m itchin’ to get out.
I made a meek effort on the Iron Horse Regional Trail Sunday, but this beast I’m driving is just too painful to spend a ton of trail time sitting on.
It has been too long.
The last hike I went on, I led a troop of 6-year old Brownies through Mission Trails Regional Park.
Here is the hike report:
http://www.outsidesd.com/blog1/2007/11/29/dirty-brownies/
I am looking forward to getting out a lot more as the New Year comes along.
Happy Holidays!
I can’t really count the Christmas Bird count in Alum Rock as a hike, since our group stayed in the valley and didn’t get up on the trails. So my last hike was a loop around the High Peaks in Pinnacles last Tuesday (http://fluidflow.es-designs.com/?p=1230).
The high point of the hike was the high point of the trail where we got close to three condors. I will probably head down there again this weekend, when my Uncle is in town.
In between all the training hikes to Alum Rock, I summited Mission Peak from Sunol, and hiked a 16 mile loop in Coe out of Hunting Hollow, passing by Redfern Pond, Wilson Camp, Wilson Peak, and over and down Steer Ridge. But starting this weekend, it’s ski season!
I joined up with the Stanford Outing Club again and went back to Garland Ranch for a great hike there. I’ll tell you, hiking with the SOC sure gives me a workout trying to keep up with them and there always seems to be a really fun group of people on their hikes.
And after going back to Garland Ranch a second time, it’s a great park! It’s not as big as Coe but we got in a good 4100 feet of elevation gain over about 14 miles hiking up hills that are worthy of Henry Coe. Some real leg burners there and the park was more beautiful than I realized. This time of year the fall colors are gorgeous and the park has a lot to offer. I recommend the place in the strongest terms! If you haven’t hiked Garland Ranch, GO!
On Saturday I did some solo rambling at Pescadero Creek and Sam McDonald. These are really some under-rated tracts. I usually only see people near the Heritage grove and Sam McDonald headquarters. I rarely have time to do write ups, and I don’t have a blog. I only have pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85908626@N00/sets/72157603480297477/
My last hike was a section hike on the Appalachian Trail that ended at Webster Cliffs in the White Mountains. A nice hike that ended before I wanted it to. I had Plantar Fasciitis. Here is a picture I took on my last night on the trail.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheflovesbeer/1739005558/
Cheflovesbeer, I sympathize as I have that too. I know the pain of trying to hike with it! I ended up getting custom orthotics for my hiking boots and it cured it for me. When I put my hiking boots on with these inserts inside, my feet go ahhhh as they feel so good. And now I can hike all day without pain! I went to my podiatrist and had my foot scanned for them. They were expensive though and my insurance would not cover them. You might want to look into them though if you haven’t already. They sure worked for me!
Nice contributions, everybody!
Had an opportunity to check out Valley of Fire State Park (about an hour outside of Las Vegas) a couple of days ago for some good rompin’ and gambolin’ about through tortured red rock landscape quite anomalous to the Nevada desert. . .climbing to the top of contorted eminences, Gaudi-like dome structures, and otherworldly formations offered up superb 360 long distance views of lonesome barren stark mountains – Nevada has the most mountain ranges of any state! — and of the Virgin River watershed – Zion National Park’s territory – merging with Glen Canyon’s fingerlake extensions in the northern part of the National Recreation Area.
Valley of Fire is totally off the average Vegas visitor’s agenda, and thank the redrock gods for that. Stumbling about mostly – it wasn’t quite a hike – me and my Acapulco lawyer friend (who’d never seen such a place before) came upon endless variations of elephant shapes, aliens, goblins, pharoah-ape creatures, one Darth Vadar, and some Indian Chiefs. If you haven’t checked out Valley of Fire, it’s worth the price of admission – plane ticket and $6.00 to go there just to see the place. Photos, what photos? (I plan to post them soon at Flicker.)
In late November we headed down to Tasmania taking an inexperienced group with us for a three day leisurely stroll around this beautiful area. It was late spring, and we had perfect weather (this area is notorious for fast changing conditions). There were many tiger snakes about (one of Australia’s most venemous) so we tread rather carefully.
Great spot for a short trip for anyone visiting Southern Australia in the future. Frank