Last weekend was our second camping trip to Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. It’s a great location. Just a few feet away from two of our favorite trails Cuyamaca Peak and Stonewall Peak. It’s also a good location to camp for trails in the Laguna area which are only a short drive away. The first day [...]
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Anza-Borrego Palm Canyon Trail
So glad I made it out to Anza-Borrego this year to view the wildflowers. Many plants are in bloom right now but there were quite a few that haven’t yet so I’m sure the next couple of weeks will be beautiful too. We walked part of the Palm Canyon Trail. It’s not far from the [...]
Birthday trip to Julian
For my 30th birthday Phil and I traveled up to Julian and stayed at a wonderful B&B Butterfield Inn. We hiked during the day and caught up on Lost at night. The two hikes we made were both in the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. There was actually quite a bit of snow which we didn’t [...]
Mount Woodson via Lake Poway
Had a terrific time yesterday with Phil hiking Mount Woodson. We started at Lake Poway and took Warren Canyon Trail until we reached the Mount Woodson marker. The entire hike took us about 3.5 hours and my Nike+ estimated 8 miles. Elevation gain of ~2000 ft. This definitely was a more difficult hike than Iron [...]
Iron Mountain Hike
The weather finally cooled off a bit (hopefully for a while) so Phil and I headed out to Poway yesterday to check out the Iron Mountain hike. It is mostly uphill/switchbacks but wasn’t too crazy. The hike up wasn’t too hard because of all the switchbacks and the trip back down was a great way [...]