laura, francis, and i go camping for the 4th of
july weekend.
Laura and i have been trying to get ourselves
camping for a few months. I wanted to go to the Ohlone wilderness which is south
of Livermore. i had a really hard time finding info. i went to the east bay
parks head quarters and got a map/permit. i couldn't tell how we were supposed
to go about making reservations or what we would need to bring. luckily laura
has a useful twin brother. we put him in charge of finding a place to camp. he
did a good job and picked a place about 200 miles north of us called Sinkyone
Wilderness.
Laura and i drove up to
Fran's house in Forestville on thursday night. Fran wanted us to get up early on
friday but laura and i had different plans. I think we left around 11. It took
us 4 hours to get there. about 3 hours on 101 and an hour on a small country
road/dirt road into the park. the dirt road down into the park was spectacular.
it must have gone from around 1100 feet down to sea level with an ocean of fog
visible through the trees way down at sea
level.
we picked a spot about .3 miles
from our car. the camp host said it would be a windy but it really wasn't. our
site was up on a bluff over looking the ocean on one side and the forested hills
on the other. it was very beautiful and there weren't any other camp sites near
by.
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it was just about dinner time we
had our tents up. we ate cheese tortellini. after dinner we went on a short walk
down to a
beach.
On
Saturday we got up mid-morning, fran and i made pancakes. laura had her's with
maple syrup, fran had his with cherries, and i had mine with chocolate chips. i
also flew my kite.
then
we made way too much trail mix from all the stuff dried fruit and stuff fran
bought, and went on a hike.
there
are Roosevelt elk at the park. and we saw this group at the very beginning of
our walk. there is only one trail in the park. it is the lost coast trail and it
runs the entire length of the park north to south. we walked for 4.5 miles from
the end of the dirt road south to a camp site/beach called wheeler. it was a
pretty tuff hike with lots of up and down. the trail runs along the cliffs and
ridges at the
cost.
we
were really pooped by the time we got back to our camp. we had rice and beans
for dinner and went to bed pretty
early.
we
were still tired from our walk on Saturday to do another long walk plus we had
to drive home. we went on a mile and a half walk north of our camp. it was
really pirtty. and we saw two elk with big
antlers.
On
our way back we got in the same traffic game outside of Willits that laura and i
did last year. we had dinner with fran and Betsy before Laura and i headed
home. It was a really nice trip.
Camping at Sinkyone
