Sunday, September 6, 2015

Half Dome 1968

We're with family in Laguna Niguel this weekend, celebrating a joint 80:60 birthday. Among the fun was reminiscing about a hike that Dad and I made to Half Dome in 1968, when I was 12 (and he was 32). We dug through files of old photos and found these, which had already been converted from 35 mm slides to JPG format. I cleaned them up a bit in iPhoto and post them here for a memory of old times.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Redwood Regional Park, Oakland

We did a ten-mile training loop, starting from the Skyline staging gate (about 5 miles from home), hiking French Trail to the end and returning via Stream Trail. Why training? Ingrid and Daniela are preparing to hike Half Dome in mid September. This loop hike took three hours to cover 9 miles with about 1600 vertical feet.