In The Moment / Mt Madonna Video
Just a quick camping trip a few weekends ago featuring Parker the Corgi and Ty the Husky.
Just a quick camping trip a few weekends ago featuring Parker the Corgi and Ty the Husky.
This weekend, some friends and I went camping for one night at Mt Madonna Park in Santa Cruz mountains. The site was really accessible and great for beginner campers which was important because not everyone was ready to get their wild side on. The site was also dog friendly, so we brought Parker and another dog, Ty who despite some head-butting and a sore tummy was still able to have fun hiking with us. A firepit, great weather, good food and good friends made for a pretty positive trip. Given how easy everything was, we'll hopefully have another trip with even more people set up sometime soon.
Today we went to go up to Logan's Pass, riding a tour bus up the Road to the Sun. This is the only time during our trip where we really got to go deep into the park and see some actual glaciers. Unfortunately, due to global weather changes, the handful of glaciers that are left are far away on out-of-reach peaks and will likely disappear altogether in the next 5 years. On the bright side, even once the glaciers are gone, the park itself is still an amazingly beautiful landscape of wildly dramatic mountain ranges, waterfalls, lakes and streams, all under Montana's huge blue sky. Tomorrow we'll head out back to Idaho, going up north to Sandpoint, a "beach" resort.
Just a vid I threw together from the trip.
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to go on a trip to Yosemite. I haven't been here in probably a decade, so revisiting with a large group of friends was definitely one of the biggest highlights so far this year. The weather was perfect, we did plenty of hiking, and despite being worn out when we got back, I just want to be outdoors more than ever. Ok, less chatting, more pics!
As the days are becoming longer and warmer, I'm trying to get out more often and become more active. Fortunately I'm blessed to have beautiful trails like this within a 15 min drive from my apartment. Really hard not to stop and appreciate how wonderful CA is.