Me and Pete at Mountain Top
Originally uploaded by coryhoffman.
What’s up my PMPs and Hoshins? There’s some Toyota humor for you. Today, Nick, Pete, and I went to Mission Mountain to hike up its 3000 foot height and to see what we could see. There are several trails that go up and beyond it toward the Sierras, but we opted for the 5 mile trail to the summit. This mountain is basically in our backyard for your reference.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t do very much hiking. In fact, I hardly ever go hiking and certainly not for a few miles up a mountain. Yet, I still think of myself as having a good level of cardiovascular fitness. What I found out was, that after 500 feet up this thing, I was huffing and puffing as though I had been bed-ridden for the past 3 months. And, it’s about as difficult to go up the mountain as it is to come down, possibly more dangerous to come down.
Along the way there were cows and things to moo at. There are more pictures of my hike on my flickr account (just click the picture of me and pete at the mountain peak). It’s really interesting, because the further up the mountain you go, the more noticeable the change in temperature. Near the top, it was freezing and my hands were turning white. The unfortunate thing of the summit, though, was that we were right at the level of the clouds; the view was less than optimal and really we couldn’t see more than 25 feet. At other elevations where the clouds were above us, the view was pretty neat and I took some pictures there. You could see the bay from up there, and I imagine on a clear day that you could see San Francisco and on the other side you could see the Sierra Mountains. I think that we are going to try to go back on a Sunnier day to roast closer to the sun.
And so that was my trip, I enjoyed it. It’s very good exercise too – there was one fellow that actually jogged up the somewhat rocky trail…and he was about 40 too. I really need to exercise more.
That will about do it for me today folks. Chores await.
Be kind to others,
Love,
Cory
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