View from Diablo looking east over the Central Valley toward the hazy Sierras.
I don’t generally blog about what I’ve been up to, but since I took photos this weekend, I thought I’d make an exception.
I went hiking on Mt. Diablo with my friend Chris on Saturday. Mt. Diablo sits between the Bay Area and the Central Valley, so it’s perfectly situated to be a vantage point to see much of Northern California. The city of San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge can be seen to the northwest, and the Central Valley with the Sierras way off in the distance to the east.
Vince’s birthday was Sunday, so we went out for pancakes. Unfortunately, I’ve been feeling sick since Saturday, so I spent most of the rest of the day sleeping.
I still have a sore throat and an earache, so I expect that I’ll have to go see a doctor soon. Blech! I’m going to take things a little slowly today, and hopefully I’ll be feeling better by tomorrow.
View looking south from Mt Diablo, toward the South Bay. Outcrop of chert in the foreground.
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I haven’t climbed nearly enough mountains myself. One of the neat ones I climbed was Notch Peak in Utah. When you get to the summit, there is a cliff that drops over 2000 feet. Just gorgeous.
I plan to climb Mt. Whitney in California next July. I’ve gotta really start getting in shape for that now!
I’d love to climb the Cascades volcanoes in a few years. Rainier has a strange pull on me.
I haven’t thought much of the defensive aspects of mountains. I pretty much just think about the geology, and what it would be like to climb them.
There are tons of mountains here in Korea.
The sad fact is that I haven’t climbed many of them.
When I lived in Uijeoung-bu, I climbed several and found cement fighting positions or “fox holes” as Hollywood calls them.
The fighting positions basically covered the valleys leading into the city. Another thing they do in the valleys is have these giant bridges over top of roads leading to the city. These bridges are filled with rock and cement. If an invasion occurs, explosives could be used, basically sealing off the route into the city.
I guess since the Marines, I studied the defensive aspects to the mountains rather than the geological.