This post is a little late since we hiked this in August 2024. We stayed in Groveland and headed out early to get to the Sunrise Lakes trailhead on Tioga Road. The hike is 12.4 miles out and back, with about 3100 feet of elevation gain, so it is
On a Saturday morning I was browsing Reddit and saw that the Perseid meteor shower was at its peak right now so we very last minute planned to go into Henry Coe to watch it. Dark skies are somewhat hard to get to around the Bay Area, and we thought
In April 2023 we planned a 2-night trip to Death Valley. We had some other things to do in Socal so we just tacked this on to the beginning of the trip. Originally we were going to camp there for a night, and stay in a hotel for the
We planned a last minute trip to Henry Coe over Memorial Day weekend, which turns out to be very similar to what we did last year. The main goal was to go to Mississippi Lake. We decided to do a three day trip, with two 13-mile days and a
Mission Peak is maybe one of most known hikes in the Bay Area. For some reason I never did this hike in the almost 4 years in the Bay Area until this point. Ryan was a fan of doing Mission Peak as a night hike, so that's what