Elizabeth and I started today’s hike at 9:15 from Borges Ranch. She was wearing her usual trail runners, but she was also carrying a pair of huarache running sandals in her backpack. She asked for them for her birthday and had taken them on short runs around town and loved how light and simple they [...]
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I hadn’t been to Mount Diablo since my trip up Eagle Peak in November. But today was one of the first clear days after two weeks of daily rain, so Elizabeth and I took advantage of it with a quick morning hike to Mount Diablo’s Falls Trail. When we started at 8:30 in the morning it was 46 [...] Today’s plan was to hike a loop over Eagle Peak on single-track trails. We’d be joined by Elizabeth’s friend Alice, who had just finished an internship at the Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy in southern Oregon and who is visiting us for a few days. We slept in this morning and didn’t get to the trailhead until [...] A summary of four weeks of wildflower viewing on Mount Diablo in the spring of 2009. [...] |
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