the view from there
What a beautiful day in the neighbourhood! Decided to get up early to beat the midday heat and do one of the caches near the top of Black Mountain. I have lived in RP for 14 years and never hiked the area around BM right in my own back yard!! It was noisy at the park with kids playing baseball in the fields below but amazingly quickly we were soon out of earshot and could only hear nature sounds about us. The call of California quail and scrub jay were soon identified. Never completly out of sight of the surrounding houses, we could see the sea glistening 10 miles away to the west, but in front of us the path was clear, a little muddy and leading us easterly towards our destination, Buena Vista cache!!
The rain has made such a difference, many plants were already flowering, ceanothus, mimulas, sunflower, wild onion and clematas to name a few we recognised. We were not the only walkers, we could see another group on a path to the south and a noisy off road biker came up behind us at one point but luckily he was going a different direction, straight up the hill and not along the ridge that we were making for. All too soon it seemed we were nearing the zero mark, surprising me as I thought it would be on the top of the foothill we were on. S found the cache and I signed the logbook and exchanged one of my TBs for another. We sat and enjoyed the beautiful view and watched a pair of red tailed hawks circling above us. Amazing that we were less than 2 miles from our house. This was a perfect cache IMHO! A good distance from the car, lovely scenery, in a place we had not been to before and easy to find when we got to it!! As we were not quite at the top of the ridge, we decide to continue up to the top so we could see the view from there.
On the way back I heard English voices so I called out to S, who was a little ahead of me to stop so I could take a drink of water. As we stopped we said hi and got talking to an English chap taking (or rather bribing) his family up the hill. Fancy bumping into another English family in the middle of BM.
The rain has made such a difference, many plants were already flowering, ceanothus, mimulas, sunflower, wild onion and clematas to name a few we recognised. We were not the only walkers, we could see another group on a path to the south and a noisy off road biker came up behind us at one point but luckily he was going a different direction, straight up the hill and not along the ridge that we were making for. All too soon it seemed we were nearing the zero mark, surprising me as I thought it would be on the top of the foothill we were on. S found the cache and I signed the logbook and exchanged one of my TBs for another. We sat and enjoyed the beautiful view and watched a pair of red tailed hawks circling above us. Amazing that we were less than 2 miles from our house. This was a perfect cache IMHO! A good distance from the car, lovely scenery, in a place we had not been to before and easy to find when we got to it!! As we were not quite at the top of the ridge, we decide to continue up to the top so we could see the view from there.
On the way back I heard English voices so I called out to S, who was a little ahead of me to stop so I could take a drink of water. As we stopped we said hi and got talking to an English chap taking (or rather bribing) his family up the hill. Fancy bumping into another English family in the middle of BM.
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