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Hiking - Sunday, December 31, 2017
In keeping up with my madness, and for her own health, Priscilla has been setting a fitness goal for the last couple years. Last year it was to do 10,000 steps every day. This year it was to do 40 hikes.
I initially thought that 40 hikes would be difficult to do, but we powered through and were always ahead of schedule. Our last hike was last Friday at Big Basin, and I enjoyed it especially because of the waterfalls, which none of the other places we went to had (unless you count Barton Creek Greenbelt which had small ones).
The places we hiked were:
Most of the hikes were naturally in the Bay Area. We went to The Dish five times, the most of any place. I don't enjoy that hike as much as other places, but we went there during rainy days (which there were a lot of this year) because it's paved. 7 of the hikes were to fulfill the Pix in Parks Challenge put on by the Santa Clara Department of Parks and Recreation, where the reward was a free shirt. A couple of the hikes were done by Priscilla with other people (not me), but I made up for it because I went to a few places on my own.
Usually on our hikes, we would start together but I would soon go off running on my own, since she likes to go at a relaxed pace while I like to do trail running. I would sometimes run ahead and then run back to tell her which path to take at the next fork. Or if it was a place we were more familiar with, I'd go run a longer route on my own and then try to meet up with her at the end. This allowed us to both get what we felt was a good workout for ourselves, and we only ever lost each other once (at Castle Rock, lesson learned there).
Her goal for 2018 is 10,000 steps again, but I'm sure that we'll still find fun places to go!
I initially thought that 40 hikes would be difficult to do, but we powered through and were always ahead of schedule. Our last hike was last Friday at Big Basin, and I enjoyed it especially because of the waterfalls, which none of the other places we went to had (unless you count Barton Creek Greenbelt which had small ones).
The places we hiked were:
- The Dish
- The Dish
- Picchetti Ranch
- The Dish
- Monte Bello
- The Dish
- Los Gatos Creek Trail
- Monte Bello
- Los Trancos
- Castle Rock
- Fremont Older
- Los Gatos Creek Trail
- Mission Peak
- The Dish
- Calero County Park
- Villa Montalvo
- Muir Woods
- Wahkeena to Multnomah Falls
- Stevens Creek County Park
- Rancho San Antonio
- Cliffs of Moher (Ireland)
- Mt Madonna
- Purisima Creek
- Coyote Lake
- Vasona Lake
- Joseph D Grant
- Monte Bello
- Purisima Creek
- Redwood Christian Park
- Glen Canyon Park and Twin Peaks
- Coyote Lake
- Coyote Lake
- Saratoga Gap and Upper Stevens Creek
- Upper Stevens Creek and Long Ridge
- Barton Creek Greenbelt (Texas)
- St. Joseph's Hill
- Griffith Park
- Castle Rock
- Topanga State Park
- Big Basin
Most of the hikes were naturally in the Bay Area. We went to The Dish five times, the most of any place. I don't enjoy that hike as much as other places, but we went there during rainy days (which there were a lot of this year) because it's paved. 7 of the hikes were to fulfill the Pix in Parks Challenge put on by the Santa Clara Department of Parks and Recreation, where the reward was a free shirt. A couple of the hikes were done by Priscilla with other people (not me), but I made up for it because I went to a few places on my own.
Usually on our hikes, we would start together but I would soon go off running on my own, since she likes to go at a relaxed pace while I like to do trail running. I would sometimes run ahead and then run back to tell her which path to take at the next fork. Or if it was a place we were more familiar with, I'd go run a longer route on my own and then try to meet up with her at the end. This allowed us to both get what we felt was a good workout for ourselves, and we only ever lost each other once (at Castle Rock, lesson learned there).
Her goal for 2018 is 10,000 steps again, but I'm sure that we'll still find fun places to go!