A friend who hikes here regularly gave me a valuable tip to reach a bridge that would cross a seasonally-broad stream at the beginning of our 4.3-mile loop.
We startled a small pack of deer.
I was really impressed with the views. A couple of people had shared that this was their favorite place to hike, and I see why. The trails passed through open fields as well as below tree cover. We arrived at a comfortable vista point, complete with a picnic table, at the time for peak viewing of the solar eclipse in our area. (If I had tried, I couldn't have planned it better.)Well outside the area of totality, we could nonetheless see what we could see: a dark, curved chunk (blotting out less than 30%) slowly creeping from right to left across the bottom of the sun.
And the reason we could see that was thanks to one of our regular hikers, whose well-prepared partner supplied us with a bunch of the proper ISO-compliant safety glasses.
Oh, and there were some flowers, too—like these California golden violets, as yellow as the sun (with their own dark spots).
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