Half Moon Bay
Golden Gate
fogged in
Mount Tamalpais
above the fog bank
Marin – Olema
Proud to be a hippie in Olema, California, Planet Earth!
Los Padres National Forest
is that a campsite, or what?
view from the campsite
Sequoia National Park
Kaweah River Bridge – Mineral King Valley
Atwell Mill campsite – superb
Eagle Lake Hike
This was one of the best hikes I’ve ever done – 2200 feet elevation gain over 4 miles to the 10,000+ foot Eagle Lake:
high elevation meadow, just below the lake
after strenuous climb, a final 900 foot (elevation) almost vertical rock scramble to the top. Exhausting! But well worth the effort.
lovely pool to plunge in!
Next: Half Moon Bay, Golden Gate, Mt. Tamalpais, & Olema
Carmel
Big Sur
Next: Los Padres National Forest and Sequoia National Park
It was too expensive to fly my bike out there, but I did get a chance to rent a bike for the day in Monterey. Believe it or not, I had a minor accident with a golf cart that bent my front wheel rim and added many miles to the awesome tour (is it 17 miles going out to Carmel? Or a 17 mile loop?):
Monterey Peninsula
view from the 18th tee at Pebble Beach
Next: the morning fogs lifts on Carmel and a trip down coastal highway to Big Sur
Monterey
Santa Rosalia, patron saint of the Italian fisherman
Ed Ricketts – marine biologist, ecologist, philosopher, and friend of John Steinbeck
Pacific Biological Laboratories – founded by Ed Ricketts
Next: Monterey peninsula, by bicycle