Colin in California

Its been precicely a month since I last posted. I think this is mostly disorganisation, with aspects of the problem that blog posting requires sitting in front of a computer, which I do enough for work.

So what have I done. I don’t recall any major epics, which is a shame because I really enjoy them. I’ve just looked through my photos and seen that I have been on an almost respectable number of dayhikes in Bay Area and beyond – Henry Coe State Park (inland ~1hr south of here – and somewhere really worth going back to), Castle Rock Open Space (up the hill, in the Santa Cruz mountains), Coast to Coast in San Franciso. Photos of these in the gallery below…

San Francisco was an interesting trip. Its the first time that I’ve been up to “the city”. San Francisco has some real character to it. This shouldn’t be a suprise, but was a bit of a learning experience for me – it told me how I have been getting used to living deep in the suburbs (aaarrrgghhh!).

But the most notable trip was probably this Saturday. I was meant to be going on a weekend trip with one of the local hiking clubs, but that got cancelled at the last minute. So I scrabbled for a plan. By means of an email to one of the other people who might have been going on that trip I ended up going on a daywalk in the Southern Sierra. Note this is a long way from the Bay, but it was facilitated by the people I went with having their own plane. Uhem. So we flew down to Bakersfield on Friday night and stayed in a cheap motel. On Saturday morning, Jim went off to do some 100 mile organised bike ride (the purpose of the trip), and I went with Louise up into the Sierra to do two peaks from the “list” (alt). I’d like to remind everyone that I don’t bag peaks on a list, I just happened to be walking with someone who does. In the peak register at the top of the fist of them, we were only about the third group to go up it since May (when the current president of our club was there). Then we flew back Saturday night. Quite an exciting little jolly really…