Shoreline Park

Date:01/28/06
Park: Shoreline Park, Mountain View, CA
Condition: Cloudy and the sky looks like falling
Start time: About 3:30PM
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Trail: ad hoc
Hikers: Me, Maria, Potato
Pictures: http://jc-studios.smugmug.com/gallery/1168622/1/54587941
Views: Too cloudy for any sunset, the sun does not peek out at all. Luckily it did not rain like the forecast said. We saw plants that have flowers looking like bottle cleaner. A crane, a duck. Our trail pass by Rangstroff house, shoreline ampitheatre, the kite area also. Originally I was thinking of going at Steven's Creek Trail, because I saw the sign to the trailhead. But we got lost finding the trail head so finally we just went to a familar place. The famous Shoreline Park!!! Hahaha...

Los Alamitos Creek

Date:01/21/06
Park: Almaden Lake Park, Los Alamitos Creek Trail, San Jose, CA
Condition: Cloudy
Start time: About 2:30PM
Length: Approximately 4 miles
Trail: http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/alamitoscreek.html
Hikers: Me, Maria, Sarah, Margret
Pictures: http://jc-studios.smugmug.com/gallery/1145058/1/53372873
Specifics Views: It was a flat one. Not much of a paranomic view. But we caught the sunset and a few deer sightings. There were naked trees and birds singing. There are few birds flying too. I wonder how birds live in bare trees. May be they are camping??? Hahaha.... The trail is a jogging trail and we did the exercise on the side of the trail. It has a swimming beach for the summer crowd and jogging, biking trail. There is a playground also. Sarah gets cold after the sun sets and was jogging which is the trail intended for.

Death Valley Christmas Trip

Date: Christmas 12/23-27 2005
Park: Mohave Preserve and Death Valley, CA
Condition: Sun and Clouds, no rain
Trail: No specific record
Hikers: Me, Mug, Sarah, Pak
Pictures: http://jc-studios.smugmug.com/gallery/1079516/1/51490384
Day 0 Travel to Mohave
Day 1 Mohave Hole in the Wall trail, LV Christmas Eve Buffet and Mass
Day 2 Travel to DV, DV Sand Dunes
Day 3 DV Zabriskie Point Sunrise, DV Fall Canyon, DV Ubehebe Crater
Day 4 DV Wildrose Peak, Travel home
Highlights: Drive by plenty of plants; Spent plenty of time looking for hole in the rock trail; Almost ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere; 2 hour long wait for the buffet; Longer than expected 45 minutes walk to Church to attend mass; Watch plenty of sunrise and sunsets; No Rain; Slide down the Sand Dunes; Watches sunrises; See a rainbow; Yell for long delay echoes in the canyons; Fell down on my knees in front of Maria at Dry Fall; Camera ran out of battery at Ubehebe Crater; Cloudy at Wildrose; Take plenty of pictures overall; We had climb high mountains and go beneath the sea. We had argued and stop arguments. We had fight and made up. We were enjoying ourselves overall.