Saturday: Mission Peak Sunday: Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve

I thought Dan Mitchell was nuts when he suggested hiking to the top of Mission Peak in the dark to catch the sunrise from the summit. I knew this meant a 5:30 lift-off, which meant waking an hour earlier to…

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So much for the full moon. Actually there was no moon at all when I got to the Mission Peak trailhead and saw a couple parked cars and shadows of headlamp-wearing humans milling about. John Fedak is the first face…

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We embark at 5:30 a.m. from the Mission Peak Stanford Avenue Trailhead. More details here. Here’s one more Mission Peak page. PDF of the trail map here.

With apologies to our beyond-the Bay-Area brethren, here’s the latest on our daring attempt to summit Mission Peak at sunrise on Thanksgiving morning. Current weather forecast calls for sunny skies and an overnight low in the mid-40s. We’ll be donning…

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CHANGE O’ PLANS: Dan Mitchell wants to do this at dawn to catch the sunrise from the top of the peak. This would require a 5:30 a.m. launch from the trailhead to get up to the top at 6:55. There…

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I wrote some stuff about it at my other blog.

.. having hookup woes at Two-Heel Drive World Headquarters, which gives me a perfect excuse to award myself a day off from blogging … be back Monday.

I’m back from Southern Utah. Didn’t do much hiking but I did take a bunch of pictures. Check it out if you’re in the mood.