Back on the trail

The first picture on my blog is on the same mountain top that my friend Katrina and I were hiking last winter and spring. We saw our first snake in May and gave up for the summer. It wasn't a rattlesnake but we weren't going to wait around to see one. So now that it is cooling off we started again. We hike it once a week and man what a feeling of accomplishment. It takes us about 40 minutes to get up, on a good day, and half an hour to get down. But the view is amazing. On a clear day you can see the ocean toward Santa Monica and the ocean out toward Ventura (not many of those days). So we are back on the trail!!