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2022-05-12 01:01
in Hiking
Hike Track: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8812486149
It had been a while since I last went, nice to go back up with friends:
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![weather was unseasonably cool, nice for hiking up weather was unseasonably cool, nice for hiking up](/blogimg/17/thumb1024_117_20220512_Black_Mountain_RSA.jpg)
weather was unseasonably cool, nice for hiking up
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lots of butterflies
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![A few views from the quary, not the best bit A few views from the quary, not the best bit](/blogimg/81/thumb1024_181_20220512_Black_Mountain_RSA.jpg)
A few views from the quary, not the best bit
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We were not in a big rush, so we got to the top in 3h40 (3h15 moving time) for 7 miles and climbing about 3000ft up
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![black mountain again, but this time we earned it black mountain again, but this time we earned it](/blogimg/05/thumb1024_205_20220512_Black_Mountain_RSA.jpg)
black mountain again, but this time we earned it
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The picts from the top aren't bad, but they're better on the hike:
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Then, what goes up, must go down, and it's gravely and slippery at the top, after that we got to some nice trails again:
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![we went down the other way, that's the PG&E trail that we took up we went down the other way, that's the PG&E trail that we took up](/blogimg/23/thumb1024_223_20220512_Black_Mountain_RSA.jpg)
we went down the other way, that's the PG&E trail that we took up
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hummingbird
We then took a slightly longer trail down to the farm, it was more shaded and a nicer trail
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Back at the bottom, a lot of people were looking up at a tree and we found why. An owl and its babies. That kind of stretched the zoom on my camera, but it worked:
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All in all, it was a bit over 15 miles and just a bit shy of 8h, we took our time |