The gnats were in full force and if we set our wine down for more than 15 seconds we were greeted with a bunch of gnat lushes swimming in our cups:
The next day we got a bit of a late start because we made a breakfast of eggs and soy chorizo. And yes I said soy, it is fantastic and you should all try it. I promise you you won't miss the meat and your stomach will feel a lot better the rest of the day. We made it to the trail head around 11ish and started out on our hike to the top of Bald Mountain:
It is a beautiful hike, a lot of granite and is approximately 6 miles in length round trip. The first part of the hike is a very steep incline but the trail meets up with a 4 wheel road where we encountered a few people. It was also the start of deer hunting season so every once in awhile we would hear a gunshot, which I thought was a bit unnerving until we hiked past a group of 4 guys shooting various firearms at the targets at the same time and I felt like I was in a war zone and THAT was actually slightly more unnerving.
At the top of Bald Mountain is an old Fire Watch Tower, so you are pretty high up there and there are some great views:
This is the Fire Tower and pictures taken from on top of that:
We had lunch on top of the mountain and then headed back. The weather was perfect and there was light cloud cover so it never got brutally hot. On the way back we saw this tree stump that was really cool looking so we took a pic:
It wasn't an extremely difficult hike but it wasn't terribly easy either and there was a great view from the top.
That night we went to Sunset Rock (across from Indian Rock for those who have been to the cabin), which lived up to it's name and provided a much clearer view of the sunset.
And the obligatory cheesy self portrait:
The next day we did a little nature walk to Rancheria Falls:
Not very streneous but it was good to stretch the legs.
It was a great weekend. I wish I could do it again next weekend:)
I like your obligatory self portrait couple shot. Tres cute.
ReplyDeleteokay, I swear this isn't any sort of dis. have you told your boy about his vag face?
ReplyDeletehahaha! No, he has not heard me use that term before. I actually never thought of it applied to him but you are right, by my definition it is!
ReplyDeleteAwwww, you guys are ceeeeute!
ReplyDeleteDoes he work at GB3? He looks vaguely familiar.
Miriam - he goes to Centerpoint so maybe you saw him there before?
ReplyDeleteWhat is vag face? Is that like a chin muff?
ReplyDeleteYup. Well observed Ed.
ReplyDeleteAlso, are you going to come down to the Tower this weekend and hang out? You can bring your boy toy. It's been like a month or something since I've seen you in real life.
ReplyDeleteAdam - Yes actually, I was thinking it would be a good weekend to come out so keep me in the loop and let me know what is going on Friday night!
ReplyDeleteCarrie - I find there is a similarity between facial hair on guys and bushes on women. For both pubic hair and facial hair you can shave it all off or have it nice and trimmed, you can let it grow wild or have big bushes
etc. hence vagina face or vag face was born.
Oooohh. We often refer to an overgrown goatee as a chin muff, with the same similarities in mind.
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