Snow in the Bay Area

(Panorama view of the Mission Range, Fremont from Mission Peak, 2517 Ft)

Friday March 10: The sight that welcomed me as soon as I entered East bound 237 was breath-taking. There was snow...on Mission Peak! A couple of weeks back when it had snowed in the Bay Area, a few peaks in the Mission Range did have their tops painted white, but not Mission Peak. This time, the most amazing thing had happened.

There it was...The gaping face of the peak...That used to stand so stubbornly not even letting the green grass creep into it's rocky face. But today it was tamed. The ususally brown/black bald face was finally beautified...White.

Ofcourse, I have seen snow before, but somehow, the sight of it in a place where it was the most unlikely, got me into a feverish excitement and I decided right away...I am hiking to the top the next day!

Despite weather.com's forecast (rain all weekend), Saturday was a bright and sunny day. The air was crisp with a fresh smell. A good day for the hike. Hubby was lazy/tired and decided to sleep longer. So I set off on my ~10 miles drive to Stanford avenue, base of the hill. Started the ~3.5 miles hike at 11:35 AM, with my IPod singing sweetly to me.

I was slightly disappointed when I saw the peak on Saturday because it did not have as much snow as the day before, but the surrounding peaks still had a lot of it and I would have killed for the view from the top.

About an hour into my hike, I bumped into Sai. The company was good for the hike. (As usual, I can make use of him to take pictures of me and the background:)) We reached the summit at around 1:15 PM, and WOW!!! Sacrificing a little more sleep on a fine Saturday was really worth it. Felt slight pity of the hubby for he had to miss this.(Later he told me that he would have joined me if only I had asked him one more time...ha...ha...)

Spent about 30 minutes at the summit, most of it spent taking pictures, and then ofourse splitting my only sandwich with Sai. He managed to collect a ball of snow, which stayed intact until we reached the bottom, surprisingly.


A Saturday well spent...pictures and memory worth a life time.

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