2022 San Diego Living – Hikes !

Completed Hikes:

  • Mt Woodson and Potato Chip – 8 mile hike March 2022

Stinging Lupine

The hardest potato chip I have ever worked for ! but not really the trail was not too bad as people say
magic gnome home

Interesting overhanging rock cave, with burn marks on the ceiling , was this once used by the native indigenous peoples?
blooming Eriodictyon – Yerba Santa – a highly medicinal plant

  • Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve – a Bazillion times.. October 2022


 

  • Lopez Canyon Trail – 3 miles February, 5 miles March 2022

Great Horned Owl spotted again

  • Annies Canyon Trail


  • Mission Trails – a Bazillion times.. March 2022: Rock Climbing up the climbers loop trail with Emma, Sina, Aya, Kian, Willow


 

  • Blue Sky Ecological Reserve – 5 mile hike February 2022


  • Copper Creek Falls -5 mile hike March 2022


  • Ramona Grasslands Preserve – March 2022 Hike


  • Oakoasis- March 2022 Hike

Native Clematis

  • Wrights Field, Alpine CA – March 2022 Hike


  • San Diego Botanic Garden – March, April 2022

Incredible Canary Island Tree bearing Aster flowers

  • Palomar Mountain – Nov 2021 8 miles, March 2022 5 miles


  • Daley Ranch – April 2022 – 5 mile hike


 

  • Swing by UCSD – April 2022 – 2 mile hike

bees taking a nap in a Calochortus!
Opuntia amazing!


 

  • Beacons Beach Rockhounding – March 2022


April 22, 2022 – Crestridge Ecological Preserve 

 

lots of hikes in between here but became very busy and forgot to document …


September 14 2022 Calavera Trail – 5mi

BE HERE NOW

September 19 2022 – Eagle Rock (6mi ) and Wooded Hill Nature Trail, Mt Laguna (2 mi)

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Sept 21 Manchester Preserve – 4 mi

 


San Diego Botanic Garden – Oct 2022 – Kians Family


Hot Springs Mountain – Oct 2022 – Highest Mountain in San Diego County – 10 mi

brilliant red of the buckwheat
morning sunshine peeping through while driving into the canyon

Black oaks turning in the fall colors

Beautiful Red Shanks

it has a mouth! It speaks!
crazy mushroom
Who lives in there?

 

 


Oct 2022 – Arjons Vernal Pools CNPS Restoration Cleanup Day  – MiraMesa, CA

Largest vernal pool complex in San Diego looked like this before we cleaned up all the trash and encampments

 

 


November 2022 – 5 mi hike around Lake Hodges area – Escondido CA


November 2022 – back to Lake Hodges area – hike to the point- 7 mi

Saw a Bald Eagle, Osprey, and a Peregrine Falcon


November 2022 – Marion Bear local trail – 3 mi


Nov 2022 – San Elijo Lagoon – 2 mi

 

 


Nov 2022 – San Diego Botanic Garden Lightscape – 2 mi

 


Oct 2022 – Elfin Forest , Escondido Creek – 4 mi

 

 


Dec 2022 – Cuyamaca Peak, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park CA – 8 mi


Dec 2022  – Visit Home to Santa Cruz and Pleasant Hill – how many hikes can we do in 10 days?

Blue Oak Trail in Briones – first hike


Dec 2022 – Hike in Reinhart Regional Redwoods with the Bagheris – 2nd hike


Dec 2022 – Mammoth Rock, Diablo State Park – 3rd hike – looking for the Peregrine nest


Dec 2022 – Reinhart redwoods – back again on a different trail – 4th hike

 


Dec 2022 – Briones Open Space – family hike from the Bagheri’s house ! 5th hike

coyote number 2

 


Dec 2022 – Nicene Marks and West Cliff – 8 mi hike with christa – 6th hike


Dec 2022 – Skyline Ridge – Mary, Courtney, Javery –  8th hike


Dec 2022 – Beach with Leah and Ester and Kian


Dec 2022 – last day before the new year – Espinosa Trail – Cleveland NF