Posted on 09/21/2017 1:55:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
I was hiking in the Diablo Range near San Jose, CA yesterday and had the good fortune to be there when a storm front was moving in. This is the Joseph D. Grant County Park on the Dutch Flat trail (2,457 feet) looking into the Hall Valley. That's Mount Hamilton (4,360 feet) on the other side. The Lick Observatory is located on top of the biggest peaks and is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. It was constructed between 1876 and 1887. The Mt. Hamilton Road was cut and everything was hauled up on mule-drawn wagons.
The late summer California hills and storm clouds were amazing. Here are a few shots from the hike you might enjoy.
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Maybe in a wet winter spring runoff.
Maybe during a deluge.
There are drops in that canyon you need ropes for, FYI.
Hey man, not so LOL. Google devil and “missing” or “found dead”
Or diablo
http://www.google.com/search?q=diablo+missing+found+dead&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1
clue = use of devil or diablo in a location’s name. It ain’t for nothing.
OK, but the good news in your links was “Jul 28, 2017 - Diablo, the 115-year-old tortoise that was reported missing, has been found.”
This thread brings back good memories. I used to haunt the peninsula on my mountain bike.
IMO the best mountain biking trail I ever rode was Purisma, just south of Half Moon Bay.
Just the downhill part, not the uphill part, which sucks greatly. IIRC you can go almost two miles straight downhill with no pedaling required, just good brakes.
I saw my first and only mountain lion on Sheep Camp Trail, near the water temple. It was awesome, and is seared into my memory.
Got a lot of scrapes, and left a lot of blood on the jumps above Carlmont High School in Belmont.
Living in Houston I very much envy and resent you hill people!
LOL...hope you got through the hurricane unscathed.
The varied hills and landscape are some of the big reasons I stay in CA. I spent seven years in Missouri and always joked the landscape didn’t change for 1,000 miles in any direction. Here I can go from coast to savannah to chaparral to coastal oaks to redwoods all in a five mile hike. We pay a steep price in taxes, traffic, liberals, and complete idiots governing the state.
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