In Beauty I Walk. San Bruno Mountain.
Jan. 11th, 2021 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIn Beauty I Walk. It's the refrain of a Navajo prayer called Night Chant. It's also a tag I've used 450 times in my LiveJournal blog to describe my joy and harmony of hiking in nature. It's my #1 tag over there, eclipsing even the "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" tag I started blogging with.
You wouldn't know that from reading over here on Dreamwidth, though. In the month and and half since I made this my primary platform I've used it exactly... never. I realized that as I went to post an "In Beauty I Walk" entry today. Blame a combination of Coronavirus and weather. Coronavirus has made travel out of the area impractical, and weather the past few months has made this an unsatisfying time of the year for hiking locally (recent lack of rain has left vegetation brown and streams dry). Plus, honestly, after 10 months of barely being able to leave the area I've grown bored with the options locally.
Saturday we put those frustrations aside as we got out for a real hike for the first time in a long time. We went to San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco.
![San Bruno Mountain [Jan 2021]](https://canyonwalker.dreamwidth.org/file/23475.jpg "San Bruno Mountain [Jan 2021]")
We've been to San Bruno Mountain a couple times before, most recently on a trip in late July. On that trip we didn't get to the peak because we misread some of the one-way markings (to promote social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic) on the trail map and didn't want to violate the rules like most of the other people there. This time we took the correct trail to be able to get to the top, legally. The top, BTW, is that antenna farm you can see in the upper left corner of the pic above.
The trail we hiked Saturday began by looping down through a ravine. For what's supposed to be a peak hike that was disheartening. Climbing back out of the ravine to a neighboring ridge gave us extra exercise, though, and once we topped that ridge the views became expansive. Yes, the scenery gets better than looking up at that antenna farm above. Way better. Keep reading (next entry) to see.
You wouldn't know that from reading over here on Dreamwidth, though. In the month and and half since I made this my primary platform I've used it exactly... never. I realized that as I went to post an "In Beauty I Walk" entry today. Blame a combination of Coronavirus and weather. Coronavirus has made travel out of the area impractical, and weather the past few months has made this an unsatisfying time of the year for hiking locally (recent lack of rain has left vegetation brown and streams dry). Plus, honestly, after 10 months of barely being able to leave the area I've grown bored with the options locally.
Saturday we put those frustrations aside as we got out for a real hike for the first time in a long time. We went to San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco.
We've been to San Bruno Mountain a couple times before, most recently on a trip in late July. On that trip we didn't get to the peak because we misread some of the one-way markings (to promote social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic) on the trail map and didn't want to violate the rules like most of the other people there. This time we took the correct trail to be able to get to the top, legally. The top, BTW, is that antenna farm you can see in the upper left corner of the pic above.
The trail we hiked Saturday began by looping down through a ravine. For what's supposed to be a peak hike that was disheartening. Climbing back out of the ravine to a neighboring ridge gave us extra exercise, though, and once we topped that ridge the views became expansive. Yes, the scenery gets better than looking up at that antenna farm above. Way better. Keep reading (next entry) to see.
