left or right

I went for a hike this weekend. Weather.com called for rain, and they were right, but only for about ten minutes. After that, the clouds opened up and it was sunny and crisp all day. Perfect hiking weather. We headed out from Berkeley, towards Stinson Beach. It really was beautiful. We drove for what seemed like miles and miles before we finally found the unmarked junction turn off. At this point in the adventure I would like to pause and wonder aloud, what exactly makes a road, a junction? This is odd because to me at some point this meant that this totally small little gravelly (yes I said gravelly) road was bigger, or used more than it is now. Because why isn't it just called a road, or a street, or court, or lane? Nope, its a junction. An unmarked junction actually. Anyway, we turned left and past the most quaint, cutest, and marvelous town. With one elementary school, one fire station, and one skate park. We also passed lots of cows, and horses, and weird huge tall wire tipi looking things used by the US coast guard. Don't ask don't tell?

We finally got to the trailhead. The trail we were planning on hiking was, The Coast Trail from Palomarin Trailhead to Alamere Falls. Yeah, waterfalls, going into the ocean. Mmm, pertty. Not too long after we began the hike we came to a T. We could go left, to follow the Coast Trail. Or go Right to follow some other trail. For some reason at that very moment, we all agreed to go right. The trail name (I forget what it was), sounded more correct than the actual trail we were supposed to be on. We had obviously forgotten the name of the correct trail. Also, we why thought it was a good idea to go away from the ocean is beyond me.

So we continued on. Hiked and hiked and hiked. A lot of uphill, no lakes or waterfalls. As it was getting late we began to get suspicious. So under this beautiful canopy of trees we pulled out the map. ... Fuck ... We were supposed to take a left. For some reason this was funnier than normal, considering we only had to make ONE decision the entire hike. Left or right? And we chose the wrong one.

It was a great day of fresh air, and beautiful views. Hopefully I will hike to those falls at some point. Below are photos. Woohoo!



We could actually see the city, and Sutro tower from here. Sweet.