Hi Newcomer Friday Hikers
Today we had another great hike startiing at Juniper Campground at Mt Diablo. This trail is number 6 on the Mt Diablo Map. We did this in the reverse of what we did on the last Newcomer hike in this area. The wildflowers were amazing. We saw a lot of Diablo Bush Sunflower lining the trails along with both bush and miniture lupines. There were a lot of CA poppies, clarkia, blue dicks, freemont star lilly Owls clover, yellow viotets, a few shooting stars, popcorn flowers, wall flowers and chia.
The hike is 3.8 miles long, and 2.8 miles of that is uphill. The hike took us 2 1/2 hours…just what the Mt. D map suggests so we did really good. We stopped along the way for photos…..just a few.
Todays hikers were Marlene M., Floy H., Claudia W., April R., Lois T, and Sharon K.
I want to thank the many of you who have supported my 4 H’er hiking group in our effort to raise $1000. for MS. We willl be walking in SF this weekend We have reached our goal plus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Next week we will be hiking at Sunol followed by a picnic in honor of Floy who will be moving soon to southern CA. I will be sending out a sign up list this weekend to bring food.
Happy Trails, Sharon
