Sites in the post are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex. Please check web sites on the latest info. It was a smoky November. So hazy, one cannot see ridges around the Bay Area. Even the coast had poor air quality. We spent two weekends in a row doing nothing, and I felt anxious….
Tag: San Francisco Bay Area
Sunset Hike at Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve
What is the source of the good memory? And how would you know that this memory still will be good and strong with the time pass? Do you think this memory would be strong enough to replace all struggles of your Monday to Friday life? Oh forgive me my philosophic mood. What I want actually…
Castle Rock State Park: Saratoga Gap trail
Castle Rock is an old and faithful friend. How many combinations of its trails we hiked! And still, one was left aside. I hiked Saratoga Toll road in combination with Skyline-to-the-Sea trail. But nearby Saratoga Gap somehow missed my attention. So when in the hot July day I tried to find the place to hike…
Monte Bello Open Space Preserve
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…
Sunol Wilderness
It’s impossible to describe how I’m in love with this year Spring. Incredible wildflowers bloom cannot stop to impress me more and more! Sunol is one of the very popular places in the East Bay. Winter is the good season to visit Little Yosemite, Fall brings yellow colors and acorns to the oak covered hills,…
Mission Peak Hike
It’s a period when hills of Diablo Range become green, temperatures fall. This means – it’s a time for hiking in East Bay and South Bay parks.
Fall hike at Castle Rock State park
We did a lot of hikes in Santa Cruz Mountains. I like redwood grows, waterfalls and creek, hills and vistas. But one place has the most stunning views. And this place is a Castle Rock State Park.
Over the clouds, or Mt Tam East Peak
We did this classic Bay Area hike on the last October weekend. Nice weather, bright sun and light fog over the ocean met us
Tilden: Botanical park and Steam Trains
Tilden was in my October To Do list. And we did it 🙂