There are no bad seasons here in Santa Cruz mountains. Wet winter clears the horizon and produces dramatic clouds, green Spring is full of wildflowers, Fall brings orange and bright yellow occasional leaves and smelly nuts to shine under yet warm sun above the brown and dead grass. Summer is all about fog. Fog covers…
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Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
The last year trip to Utah is still one of the biggest memories. It left so many places where we want to come back and so many places where that we want to visit. But there was one place that I forgot to show. We headed back to California with the overnight stay in Las…
Olympic: Hurricane Hill
The Rainer and its snow crashed one of my biggest dream for that trip: to see wildflowers bloom in the mountains. So many pictures I saw, so many expectations I had about it. But nope, too early. Hurricane Ridge was my biggest exclusion from the agenda. With the heavy heart I selected waterfall (particular Marymere…
Tomales Point Hike
On July 03, 2014 we hiked to Tomales Point. I still remember it as a long, cold, foggy, windy hike with the fantastic views from point and deer somewhere in the fog. I remember how it was to walk uphill with shoes full of sand. I remember how cold I felt. But I was happy!…
Spring at Long Ridge
Another one of my favorites hikes. It has everything: long views of the ridges, spring wildflowers, wildlife, and not so many hikers.
Mindego Hill Spring hike
When I love something I want to do it regularly. If I love place I want to visit it frequently 🙂 So Mindego Hill is my favorite.
SoCal: Storm on the beach
It was planned as a sweet and warm ending of the year. I wanted to check out few Orange county beaches before heading to Oceanside and San Diego. On a Wednesday night, we stayed in the middle of nowhere near Interstate 5. When I woke up, I saw an apricot field, mountains in the distance…
Zion National Park
I worried the most about that day. Zion is the most visited park in the region. They even had record number during Labor day. Oh, and you cannot drive through Zion Canyon Road by yourself during the season 🙁
Redding and near, or lake-river-lake
The May trip went not as planned. Rainy was heavy than forecasted, the road to the waterfall was in the worse condition we expected, and by the end of the Saturday, there was overcasted sky all over. But it was fun.