A Hike Up a Mountain

minigrowl (51)in #photography • 7 years ago

This past year for Christmas we went to central California to visit my wife's family and see more of what we don't have in Indiana (ocean and mountains). The following are pictures of my first few adventures:

View of the mountains from her hometown, Exeter CA. They farm a lot of produce there as you can see in the pic above. That day we took a trip to Three Rivers for some pizza and a little mountain hike, pictured below:

The next day I went alone back to the same spot to climb to the top of the mountain I saw. To gauge my elevation I would take a picture of of a camping circle down below which was an easy reference point. It was a little higher from where I started the hike.

Free range cows running away from me as I drove to my start point

A view from the bottom of where I was heading.

My first turn around to see the camping circle. It's at the end of the clearing to the right

again, higher up

The peak is much closer now

These are the bushes I was climbing though and under. It started out much easier and wide but eventually just became a small game trail I followed up the ridge.

Above is a few more pics of the trail and another distance check.

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above is evidence of bobcat prevalent in the area.

My lunch spot and final stop as it was getting late and I had not brought any over night gear and Everyone was expecting me back by 4. It got dark at 530 so I decided not to risk it. I was probably about an hour and a half from the peak but the view from here was breathtaking. Maybe next time I'm out there I will attempt it again.

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