Gotta go Hiking

Original photo by dlofink

Saturday the 20th of April was a busy day for me, my dad, and my girlfriend.  Besides surfing in the morning, we went hiking later that afternoon.  This hiking trip was training for Montana later on this summer.

We went down to Irvine, Ca and hit the Shady Canyon Trail by starting at The Quail Hill Loop Trail parking lot.  We made our way out to the Boomer Canyon Community Park and did a small loop there before returning home.

We hiked a total of 6.8 miles in just over 2 hour's time.  You can view the Training Peaks file here.

Similar to our Friday hike in Fullerton, Ca on the Juanita Cooke Greenbelt, we saw a lot of wildlife.  The highlight of this trip was a couple of roadrunners.  Technically we had three different sightings.  My dad and I suspected that two were the same bird, since one sighting was on the way out and the other was on the way home in roughly the same vicinity.

Original Photo by Clayton Plummer