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<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-cairns-1.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-cairns-1.jpg" alt="140125-cairns-1" width="2048" height="1365" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2204" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-cairns-1.jpg 2048w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-cairns-1-300x199.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-cairns-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-cairns-1-1380x919.jpg 1380w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></p>
<p>Big Sur Month 11, part 2: The rock stacks</p>
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<p>One of the surprising things from my beach and Big Sur adventures were the number of rock stacks we came upon. So many of the beaches I went to were rocky and so many of them had cairns. Even when Steve and I were the only ones in sight, the only ones on the trail, the only ones upon the beach, we’d still often come across a cairn or three (or twenty). </p>
<p>Sand Dollar was no exception.</p>
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<p>I especially loved the echo of the sea stacks in the rock stacks. Sentinels on shore, sentinels at sea.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-6-3surfers.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-6-3surfers.jpg" alt="140125-6-3surfers" width="2400" height="1558" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2188" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-6-3surfers.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-6-3surfers-300x194.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-6-3surfers-1024x664.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140125-6-3surfers-1380x895.jpg 1380w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a></p>
<p>January 25, 2014. Big Sur Month 11.</p>
<p>Sand Dollar beach is at the south end of Big Sur, “across the street” from Plaskett Creek (my favorite camp ground). It’s one of those beaches that changes dramatically with the tide and the seasons. Sometimes a wide expanse of sandy beach. Sometimes only rocks and bank.</p>
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<p>I added quotation marks to its proximity to Plaskett, because it’s really the parking lot that is across the street. The beach requires a meander of a walk and steep stairs that take you down to the beach itself.</p>
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<p>We caught it on a subdued day. Everything muted, quiet; muffled by the cloud cover. There was a sense of aloneness, even with others around you. The ocean and the clouds loomed large, creating a sense of smallness to everything else.</p>
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<p>Steve and I took different beach routes. He perched on this rock, taking photos and making movies of the ocean and the waves. I walked south, underneath the cliff wall. </p>
<p>The south side of the beach — precariously rocky — was underdevelopment. A subdivision of cairns erected everywhere you looked, echoing the sea stacks in the ocean.</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130aloe-1024x683.jpg" alt="Aloe and coastline" width="1024" height="683" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2166" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130aloe-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130aloe-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Month 10 and technically, well, I will admit that we went on November 30th, so there were two trips in November. But December was crazy (almost a week in SF, holiday bru ha ha, Christmas, New Years and yadda yadda) so I’m glad we went a little early. And we didn’t venture far north, just Ragged Point.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-oceansm-1024x682.jpg" alt="Ragged coast line" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2158" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-oceansm-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-oceansm-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
There is no clear definition of where the southern most part of Big Sur starts. Big Sur the town is quite tiny and quite close to Carmel, hours away from us. The Big Sur coast, on the other hand, is 90 or so miles of rugged, curvy coast line. Some think it starts at the Monterey County line (which would be just above Ragged Point). Others say Ragged Point. Other others say San Carpoforo. Still, other other others say San Simeon.</p>
<p>Perhaps all of these others are SLO County residents.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-treesm-1024x682.jpg" alt="trees" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2162" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-treesm-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-treesm-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Before I started my Big Sur a Month challenge, I considered somewhere around Salmon Creek as Big Sur. About two months into the challenge, my consideration began to slip southward. Now I embrace San Carpo as the beginning of the Sur.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-raggedpointtrees-1024x721.jpg" alt="trees" width="1024" height="721" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2163" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-raggedpointtrees-1024x721.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-raggedpointtrees-300x211.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Ragged Point has been a fun afternoon jaunt for me and my family for about 15 years. It’s a beautiful drive and you still have radio stations and there is a cafe where you can get a burger and some fries and a shop with hippy-arty Big Sur goods.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rplawn-sm-1024x745.jpg" alt="lawn" width="1024" height="745" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2160" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rplawn-sm-1024x745.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rplawn-sm-300x218.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
And there is a gorgeous lawn that sports several adirondack chairs. It reaches out to the cliffside where you can gaze and marvel over the Pacific. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rprun-sm-1024x765.jpg" alt="running on the lawn" width="1024" height="765" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2161" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rprun-sm-1024x765.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rprun-sm-300x224.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
It’s good for all ages, those that need help walking as well as those who need to run and jump and stretch their legs after hours in the car.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rgsoccersm-1024x682.jpg" alt="playing soccer at Ragged Point" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2159" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rgsoccersm-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-rgsoccersm-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
The landscaping is gorgeous. Drought tolerant, mediterranean types of plants and succulents: pride of madeira, bougainvillea, and aloe that blooms in the winter all of which heartily welcome bees, monarch butterflies (fall, winter, early spring) and hummingbirds (year round).</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-closeup-1024x652.jpg" alt="Monarch" width="1024" height="652" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2157" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-closeup-1024x652.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-closeup-300x191.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
There is a steep cliff walk that goes to the beach at the base of Ragged Point. There is a waterfall (one of four on the Big Sur coastline.). I’ve never made it all the way down. Steve and I tried again on this trip, but the poison oak was too rampant and reached across the trail too far and too often. Our fear of blisters and incessant itching won out and we turned back not even halfway down.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-butterflies-1024x682.jpg" alt="butterflies" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2152" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-butterflies-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-butterflies-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-beesbflies-1024x651.jpg" alt="bees and butterflies" width="1024" height="651" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2151" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-beesbflies-1024x651.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-beesbflies-300x190.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
On the way home we pulled out just above San Carpoforo (<a href="http://www.emdot.com/san-carpoforo/">where’d we been just a few weeks before</a>). It has cut down pine trees (bad beetle is killing these trees) whose stumps act as handy bar stools. We sat and shot photos and took it all in.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpo-walksm-1024x765.jpg" alt="Stopping above San Carpoforo" width="1024" height="765" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2153" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpo-walksm-1024x765.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpo-walksm-300x224.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpocrouchsm-1024x765.jpg" alt="Crouching to take the photo" width="1024" height="765" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2154" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpocrouchsm-1024x765.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpocrouchsm-300x224.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carposeasm-1024x757.jpg" alt="Looking at San Carpoforo from above" width="1024" height="757" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2155" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carposeasm-1024x757.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carposeasm-300x222.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpositsm-1024x755.jpg" alt="Sitting and looking" width="1024" height="755" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2156" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpositsm-1024x755.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/13-1130-carpositsm-300x221.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bigsur10-150x150.jpg" alt="me, month 10 in big sur" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2167" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bigsur10-150x150.jpg 150w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bigsur10-300x300.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bigsur10.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></p>
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<p>Week 33 and the last beach of the challenge.</p>
<p><iframe width="700" height="394" scrolling="no" src="//cameo.tv/c/gPJ4x3JK/iframe" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe><br />
Steve made the movie. I love it. It’s perfect. If a picture is worth 1000 words, a video is worth an entire blog post.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-the-last-one-1024x647.jpg" alt="The beautiful, vast beach at San Carpoforo" width="1024" height="647" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2138" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-the-last-one-1024x647.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-the-last-one-300x189.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
San Carpoforo. Some consider it the southern-most tip of Big Sur. Vast. Wide. Big. Gorgeous waves. Gorgeous beach. Driftwood city. Sea anemone paradise. I love this beach. I love this beach. I love this beach.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-1-1024x682.jpg" alt="Hike entrance at San Carpoforo" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2122" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-1-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
You park on Highway 1, a few miles north of Piedras Blancas. The beach itself is at the end of San Carpoforo canyon and creek. It’s a medium walk through chaparral, then along the creekside that peters out before it reaches the ocean.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-2-1024x699.jpg" alt="Plover posted: yield to the plover" width="1024" height="699" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2123" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-2-1024x699.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-2-300x205.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Snowy Plovers, little miniature birds just six-inches tall, lay their eggs on the sand and, consequently, rule Central Coast beaches. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-3-1024x682.jpg" alt="driftwood along San Carpoforo creek" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2124" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-3-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
The beach is a great one for driftwood. And driftwood architecture.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-4-1024x676.jpg" alt="Driftwood hut" width="1024" height="676" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2125" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-4-1024x676.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-4-300x198.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Driftwood and sea rocks. Rocks. Big rocks. A cove of them.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-5-1024x701.jpg" alt="Big rocks in a cove, cyprus on an outcrop" width="1024" height="701" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2126" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-5-1024x701.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-5-300x205.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-12-1024x692.jpg" alt="from the rock cove, looking north this time" width="1024" height="692" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2133" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-12-1024x692.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-12-300x202.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-6-1024x765.jpg" alt="Rocks on the beach" width="1024" height="765" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2127" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-6-1024x765.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-6-300x224.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-9-1024x682.jpg" alt="rocks out to sea" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2130" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-9-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-9-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Maybe you can’t tell from this photo, but it was a super low-tide. These rocks? Probably not exposed often.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-8-1024x682.jpg" alt="location of the hanging anemones" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2129" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-8-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-8-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Case in point: the underside of these rocks was lined with hanging sea anemones.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-7-1024x682.jpg" alt="hanging anemone" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2128" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-7-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-7-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Hanging sea anemones… like something from a science fiction marine biology field trip.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-10-1024x692.jpg" alt="beach creation" width="1024" height="692" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2131" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-10-1024x692.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-10-300x202.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
While I explored the intertidal zone, Steve made a driftwood/kelp beach installment.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-11-1024x696.jpg" alt="beach, looking south again" width="1024" height="696" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2132" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-11-1024x696.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-11-300x204.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-13-1024x761.jpg" alt="long, tall beach shadow" width="1024" height="761" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2134" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-13-1024x761.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-13-300x223.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-15-1024x682.jpg" alt="walking back to the car" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2137" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-15-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-15-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
Walking back to the car, the sunsetting behind us cast a pretty glow on the hills to the east.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-14-1024x1024.jpg" alt="cyprus, part green, part dead, colored by sunset" width="1024" height="1024" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2136" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-14-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-14-150x150.jpg 150w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-14-300x300.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
As well as on this cyprus tree. I liked the play of brown, dead limbs, green living limbs and the orange cast from the sunset.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-13b-1024x682.jpg" alt="sunset over the pacific" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2135" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-13b-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/141102-13b-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><br />
A beautiful sunset was the perfect ending to the day and a perfect ending to my Beach a Week venture.<br />
<img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/beach33-150x150.jpg" alt="Me, Week 33 at the beach" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2141" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/beach33-150x150.jpg 150w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/beach33-300x300.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/beach33.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13n-cover.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13n-cover-1024x685.jpg" alt="looking out over jade cove" width="1024" height="685" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2106" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13n-cover-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13n-cover-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
Week 32 (beaches). Trip 8 (Big Sur). With only two beach weeks left to complete my beach-a-week goal (running March through the first weekend of November) and needing to hit the monthly Big Sur goal as well, we set out to visit Jade Cove. It lies toward the southern end of Big Sur between Willow and Sand Dollar. While it boasts a name that sounds like you might hit a sweet bounty, the easy-to-find jade was gathered decades ago (or so it seems to me.). Still, it’s worth a visit if only to boast of the rope-required descent or to test your semi-precious stone-finding capabilities.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13l-fave.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13l-fave-1024x699.jpg" alt="At Jade Cove, looking south" width="1024" height="699" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2103" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13l-fave-1024x699.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13l-fave-300x205.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
First of all, the hike. It starts out on a marine terrace, a dusty flat trail densely bordered by chaparral. This, to me, is the quintessential Central Coast hiking experience.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13a.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13a-1024x682.jpg" alt="Top of the trail" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2092" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13a-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13a-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
But the hike to Jade changes quickly at the cliff’s edge.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13b.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13b-1024x695.jpg" alt="Trail, cliff edge" width="1024" height="695" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2093" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13b-1024x695.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13b-300x203.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
Stairs help you navigate what could have been a tricky steep bit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13c.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13c-1024x1024.jpg" alt="stairs down" width="800" height="800" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2094" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13c-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13c-150x150.jpg 150w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13c-300x300.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></a><br />
From here on out it is a narrow-ish trail along the hillside, leading you down to the beach in a series of long switchbacks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13d.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13d-1024x682.jpg" alt="trail down hillside" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2095" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13d-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13d-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
It’s not too steep, not too precarious (until you get to the rope). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13e.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13e-1024x692.jpg" alt="switch back" width="1024" height="692" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2096" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13e-1024x692.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13e-300x202.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
The very end of the trail is very steep and you will need to use a series of ropes to reach the beach. This looks difficult, but it really isn’t. In fact, the rope makes it much easier. (I wish more trails had them.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13f.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13f-1024x682.jpg" alt="rope down" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2097" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13f-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13f-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
Bonus: it makes for a dramatic photograph. Your friends will be impressed and you might have a nice feeling of adventure and accomplishment.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13g.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13g-1024x682.jpg" alt="rope bottom" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2098" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13g-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13g-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
It was near high tide when we got there, so the beach that was available was small and rocky. I perched on an outcropping for most of the afternoon and just watched the waves lap the coast line as the ocean came in.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13h-fave.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13h-fave-1024x685.jpg" alt="rocks out to sea" width="1024" height="685" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2099" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13h-fave-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13h-fave-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
Steve, meanwhile was on the hunt for something interesting: an interestingly shaped rock, little piece of jade, maybe some moonstone.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13k.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13k-1024x682.jpg" alt="102113-jadecove13k" width="1024" height="682" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2102" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13k-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13k-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
Below you can see how little beach was available to us, and how rocky it was as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13m.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13m-1024x699.jpg" alt="the rocky beach" width="1024" height="699" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2104" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13m-1024x699.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13m-300x205.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
Back up at the top of the trail, looking southwest across the marine terrace.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13q.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13q-1024x715.jpg" alt="across the marine terrace" width="1024" height="715" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-2109" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13q-1024x715.jpg 1024w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/102113-jadecove13q-300x209.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><br />
Jade Cove’s name may conjure grand plans in your rock-hunting mind. Maybe you will be a better rock hunter than me, and make the find of your life. If not, no worries. You’ll have a remote beach adventure and a sense of the rugged California that once was, and still is, in little pockets like this.</p>
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Week 31. 2nd Street, Baywood Park. It started at a soccer game. It morphed into lunch, strolling, beaching, and labrynthing.</p>
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The weather went from overcast and nippy to sunshiney to windy. The adults, we all kept our sweatshirts on. The kids would have none of that.</p>
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Nathan and Ysabel. These two pics sum up the Baywood Kid Life.</p>
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Mom and Bec, up by the labyrinth.</p>
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I’m all for contemplative walking, but some days call out for silly running instead. Nathan ran the whole thing at least five times. Ysabel was right behind him.</p>
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Winners.</p>
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Week 30. Of all the beaches, Moonstone Beach is amongst my favorites.</p>
<p>Steve and I had driven up to Cambria to see the Scarecrows and topped off the trip with a late afternoon stroll at Moonstones.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-beach.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-beach.jpg" alt="beach scene" width="4272" height="2848" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2069" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-beach.jpg 4272w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-beach-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-beach-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px" /></a><br />
There is a little inlet that runs along Shamel park and empties out on the beach on this day it was full of birdsong and crow squawking. If I was a bird I might also choose to sing and squawk here.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-creek.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-creek.jpg" alt="the inlet" width="4272" height="2848" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2070" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-creek.jpg 4272w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-creek-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-creek-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px" /></a><br />
There’s a nice little park at this beach. All that separates the beach from the park is this little fence.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-entrance.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-entrance.jpg" alt="131005-entrance" width="3950" height="2708" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2072" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-entrance.jpg 3950w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-entrance-300x205.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-entrance-1024x702.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 3950px) 100vw, 3950px" /></a><br />
Driving home, we pulled over on Highway 1 to snap the sunset. The view to the south, tho lacking the bright colors of the setting sun, was still pretty, showing the march of the morros down to the rock.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-drivehome.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-drivehome.jpg" alt="line of morros including holister and morro rock" width="2400" height="1600" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2071" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-drivehome.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-drivehome-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/131005-drivehome-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
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<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti2.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti2.jpg" alt="struggle graffiti" width="2592" height="1936" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2054" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti2.jpg 2592w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti2-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti2-1024x764.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px" /></a><br />
Breaking my arm at the end of August (and truthfully, it was the most tiniest of breaks) really threw my hiking trips for a loop. In fact, I resisted hiking and I really resisted taking photos with a “real” camera. I didn’t see it when I was in the middle of it, but it’s quite obvious looking back. My body and/or psyche just wanted none of it.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-sign.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-sign.jpg" alt="the sign showing the structures" width="2592" height="1936" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2057" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-sign.jpg 2592w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-sign-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-sign-1024x764.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px" /></a><br />
I went two weeks without hiking and I gave myself a pass on this, deciding to do two make-up hikes as soon as possible. To me, <a href="http://www.emdot.com/hiking-is-good-lets-do-more-of-it/">I still reached my goal</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-structures.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-structures.jpg" alt="looking back at the structures" width="2592" height="1936" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2058" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-structures.jpg 2592w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-structures-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-structures-1024x764.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px" /></a><br />
The last hike was Cal Poly’s Poly Canyon/Design Village. And, again with the “resisting” theme—I didn’t take one (not one!) photo on the very last hike of the goal. Talk about anti-climatic. I went back a week later, did the whole hike all over again and took photos.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-hobbits.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-hobbits.jpg" alt="this cool weird structure" width="2171" height="1622" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2056" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-hobbits.jpg 2171w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-hobbits-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-hobbits-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2171px) 100vw, 2171px" /></a><br />
The good part of this hike was that I did it with two new friends, Matt and Robin. They both recently moved to California (Matt from Pennsylvania, Robin from Utah) and began working at Cal Poly. It was really fun to go on this hike with two new transplants and point out things and share information.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti3.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti3.jpg" alt="graffiti inside the structure (faces with glasses)" width="2592" height="1936" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2055" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti3.jpg 2592w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti3-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti3-1024x764.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px" /></a><br />
The bad part of the hike was all the brown. We are so dry here on the Central Coast. Rumor has it that Phoenix (PHOENIX!) got more rain than we did last year. We are so dry that even the air feels brittle. Everything is a shade of faded yellow, faded tan, faded beige. Washed out. Sun parched.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti1.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti1.jpg" alt="graffiti of a bug or an alien or an alien bug" width="2592" height="1936" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2053" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti1.jpg 2592w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti1-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-graffiti1-1024x764.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px" /></a><br />
The lucky part: having a hike like this just minutes from my desk at work. Seeing hawks and horses. An easy hike to squeeze in to any busy day.<br />
<a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-dryhills.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-dryhills.jpg" alt="Looking out at the dry hills" width="2592" height="1936" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2052" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-dryhills.jpg 2592w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-dryhills-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/130926-dryhills-1024x764.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px" /></a><br />
See all the photos from this hike in a slide show (or <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/sets/72157639931363446/">on Flickr</a>).<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_2.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_2.jpg" alt="watching the surfers" width="2400" height="1612" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1918" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_2.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_2-300x201.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_2-1024x687.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
Week 29. September 28. <a href="http://www.surfline.com/travel/surfmaps/surfspot.cfm?id=256">Hazard Canyon</a> <a href="http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/sidetracked/2011/09/the-not-so-secret-surf-spot/">was</a> the quintessential <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aFL2nb0SE3kC&pg=RA1-PA113&lpg=RA1-PA113&dq=secret+spot+hazard+canyon&source=bl&ots=DFluU2nCVb&sig=OubSXyB7f2yJkyJZTUbQbU5kjuQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=as5vUt3jL6T2iwK3ioDgAg&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=secret%20spot%20hazard%20canyon&f=false">secret surf spot</a> on the Central Coast for decades. It was fiercely defended, protected, and monitored by local surfers. There was a time that if you were not a local and parked your car at the secret entrance, chances were you’d return to a custom “no tresspassing sign” opaquely displayed as a thick covering of surf wax over every window of your car. You could expect a fist in the water or someone paddling over your feet in the line up. Name calling and stink eye were the least of your worries.</p>
<p>I don’t know when the spot was officially outed but I’ve seen it mentioned in Surfer Magazine and in at least one surf movie. A quick google search comes up with pages of links. An official parking spot was added by the MdO park (tho down the road from the traditional entrance), making it an easy place to get to for a day on the beach or in the water.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_15.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_15.jpg" alt="walking the canyon" width="2400" height="1600" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1931" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_15.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_15-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_15-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
No matter where you park or your local/non-local status, it still requires a long walk in through a eucalyptus stand and thick sand.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_1.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_1.jpg" alt="So many people on the beach" width="2400" height="1600" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1917" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_1.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_1-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_1-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
All that said, I was surprised none-the-less by how many people were on the beach.</p>
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Growing up here, this was always a special place for me because it was a secret, special beach that not that many people knew about or went to.</p>
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My friends and I would come down for long walks with our families or for impromptu bonfires (can’t get away with that anymore) or just to sit and watch the surfers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_3.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_3.jpg" alt="surfer walking in" width="2400" height="1599" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1919" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_3.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_3-300x199.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_3-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
Steve and I sat on rock outcroppings for a while, people watching, bird watching. We took a walk looking at rocks, shells, feathers, birds. Getting our feet wet. It was blazing hot, a beautiful day. Quintessential Indian Summer Central Coast perfection.</p>
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(Surfer coming in, walking towards his friends)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_7.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_7.jpg" alt="the sandy cliff" width="2400" height="1600" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1923" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_7.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_7-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_7-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
(The huge sand dune cliffs. I think they are beautiful.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_8.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_8.jpg" alt="birds" width="2400" height="1600" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1924" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_8.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_8-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_8-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
(So much kelp! Nice view to the rock.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_9.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_9.jpg" alt="snowy plovers are cute" width="2325" height="1583" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1925" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_9.jpg 2325w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_9-300x204.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_9-1024x697.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2325px) 100vw, 2325px" /></a><br />
(The little guys are snowy plovers. Because they build their nests right on top of the sand and because the state of California staunchly protects them, the snowy plovers dictate when people can go through the dunes and what parts of the beach are open.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_10.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_10.jpg" alt="curlews" width="1114" height="769" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1926" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_10.jpg 1114w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_10-300x207.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_10-1024x706.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1114px) 100vw, 1114px" /></a><br />
(Long-billed curlews, my favorite shore bird.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_11.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_11.jpg" alt="heerman's gulls flying away" width="3947" height="2647" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1927" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_11.jpg 3947w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_11-300x201.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_11-1024x686.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 3947px) 100vw, 3947px" /></a><br />
(I don’t know that much about gulls. They seem to be ubiquitous, but when you start paying attention you begin to realize they are different types of gulls. You begin to wonder if certain gulls show up during certain seasons. You begin to wonder if juveniles look different from adults. You vow to check the bird book when you get home. You invariably forget.)</p>
<p>(That said, I think these are Heermans.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_12.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_12.jpg" alt="looking toward morro rock" width="2400" height="1600" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1928" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_12.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_12-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_12-1024x682.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
(Getting into the water lets you get the best to-the-rock perspective.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_14.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_14.jpg" alt="running down the enormous dune" width="2400" height="1623" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1930" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_14.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_14-300x202.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092813_hazards_14-1024x692.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
(Running down these dunes. I loved doing this when I was a teen.)</p>
<p>Secret or not, Hazards is still one of my favorite beaches and it still feels like a treat when I get to go. Sunny and hot, like it was on this day, or socked-in-fog, it doesn’t matter. It’s a long stretch of secluded beach. It’s California. It’s a great way to spend a day.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_1.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_1.jpg" alt="the trail is a bit spaghetti western" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1961" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_1.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_1-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_1-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a></p>
<p>Week 25. September 22. I took two weeks off from hiking because of my broken arm. Yes, I know — one does not need their arm to hike. However… my body was tired. It needed to rest and so I did let it rest. I decided to take a couple weeks off and add a couple weeks at the end as make ups.</p>
<p>This is make up number one.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_2.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_2.jpg" alt="straight freaking up" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1962" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_2.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_2-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_2-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
Prospects has different names depending on who you are, who your friends are, where you live, and perhaps when you first started hiking this hill. My first hike was in October 1989. I remember the day because it was also the same day as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake">La Prieta earthquake</a> that shook SF and Santa Cruz.</p>
<p>My friends call it Prospects, though I do have a couple other friends who moved here later than the first group of friends and they call it High School Hill. I cannot abide by that. (Okay, cannot end that sentence with out a smile. Love you high-school-hillers.)</p>
<p>At the base of the hike nowadays is a sign that says Bowden Ranch and also mentions Resevoir Canyon. One steep hike, so many names.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_3.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_3.jpg" alt="looking out -- seeing cerro san luis and bishop peak" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1963" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_3.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_3-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_3-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
I haven’t done this hike very often and I think that’s because the former trail was straight up through dry grass. A very steep grade with the possibility of ticks? No fun!</p>
<p>The new trail, however, is hugely improved. It has switch backs and old spaghetti-western type fencing. It has (some) shade. The grade is still very steep, so get ready for a whole lot of elevation in a short period of time (I know you can do it.).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_5.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_5.jpg" alt="the cairn at the top of the trail" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1965" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_5.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_5-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_5-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
Steve and I both added a rock to this cairn.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_6.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_6.jpg" alt="walking to the tower" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1966" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_6.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_6-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_6-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
You can see the tower above (ahead of Steve in the photo) from all parts of town. It’s a directional marker for me (as are the cerros on the other side). Always easy to know what direction you are headed in SLO by your proximity to cerros and hillsides.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_7.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_7.jpg" alt="brown brown hills that are brown" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1967" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_7.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_7-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_7-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
It is so brown and dry right now that it is hard to believe it was ever green or that it will ever be green again. The brown is part of the breath of the landscape. Breathe in dry. Breathe out dry. Feel the wind. Watch dust kick up from your shoes. See the brittle grasses around you. It is the season of parch, surely to never end.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_9.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_9.jpg" alt="the grade" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1969" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_9.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_9-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_9-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
The meandering line in the middle left of the photo above is highway 101, snaking up the Cuesta Grade. Leaving San Luis and heading to North County. Or descending from North County, heading for a cooler clime, depending on your perspective.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_8.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_8.jpg" alt="looking out towards the cerros" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1968" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_8.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_8-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_8-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a><br />
From the top of Prospects you can see to the top of the grade when looking east, or you can see to the oceans if looking west. Both Pismo Beach and Morro Bay are visible. The cerros above march to Morro Rock (and you can see a line of white fog covering Los Osos as it is legally required to do.).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_11.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_11.jpg" alt="all the words" width="2049" height="1530" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1971" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_11.jpg 2049w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_11-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_11-1024x764.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2049px) 100vw, 2049px" /></a><br />
The hike itself is not long, just steep. I enjoyed it so much more than previous experiences (new trail, you paid off.). Bring some water and maybe some binoculars to take in the ocean views or to find your house down in the valley or to appreciate the wayward buck or bird.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_12.jpg"><img src="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_12.jpg" alt="resevoir canyon natural reserve" width="2400" height="1793" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1972" srcset="http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_12.jpg 2400w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_12-300x224.jpg 300w, http://www.emdot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/092213_prospects_12-1024x765.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /></a></p>
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