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canyonwalkerI'm pretty tired today after an amazing trip to Pinnacles National Park yesterday. The hike was about 4.5 miles with 1300' of elevation gain. I've done the hike many times before but I'm out of shape right now so it's hitting me harder than usual.
Writing about this hike is going to have to go on my backlog, as today (Monday) it's back to work, and I have over 200 pics and video clips to sort through from the hike. For now here's one quick photo:
Basically we hiked from the bottom here, Juniper Canyon, to the top and around the High Peaks Loop, then back down.
Up at the top we saw a lot of California Condors. That was amazing because the huge birds were nearly extinct not too many years ago. Like, down to the last few left on earth. Yesterday we saw several on wing in the sky. And no, it wasn't just one bird several times. At one point we saw 5 simultaneously. At the end of the day we saw what might have been ten simultaneously... but it was hard to tell if they were all condors or if some more common birds, Turkey Vultures, were mixed in to the circling formation.
Well, as this trip now goes into my blog backlog, it's a good thing I cleared our Georgia trip from my backlog. In fact I posted my last backlogged blog about Georgia yesterday morning just before leaving for the Pinnacles! ...Though it's not really the "last" because I do still have a few more things I'd like to write about that trip, including a retrospective. Well, I can see how I'll be busy with blogs for the next week... until whatever adventure I go on next weekend!
Writing about this hike is going to have to go on my backlog, as today (Monday) it's back to work, and I have over 200 pics and video clips to sort through from the hike. For now here's one quick photo:
Basically we hiked from the bottom here, Juniper Canyon, to the top and around the High Peaks Loop, then back down.
Up at the top we saw a lot of California Condors. That was amazing because the huge birds were nearly extinct not too many years ago. Like, down to the last few left on earth. Yesterday we saw several on wing in the sky. And no, it wasn't just one bird several times. At one point we saw 5 simultaneously. At the end of the day we saw what might have been ten simultaneously... but it was hard to tell if they were all condors or if some more common birds, Turkey Vultures, were mixed in to the circling formation.
Well, as this trip now goes into my blog backlog, it's a good thing I cleared our Georgia trip from my backlog. In fact I posted my last backlogged blog about Georgia yesterday morning just before leaving for the Pinnacles! ...Though it's not really the "last" because I do still have a few more things I'd like to write about that trip, including a retrospective. Well, I can see how I'll be busy with blogs for the next week... until whatever adventure I go on next weekend!
