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Outside Log 2005

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2005December

***December 3, 2005
- Joined a big group of people at the opening of the Rancho Cañada del Oro open space preserve, and hiked to the top of the ridge.
***December 4, 2005
- First ski trip of the season! A beautiful day on the upper mountain at Squaw Valley.
***December 16, 2005
- Finals are finished and grades are [...]

2005November

***November 6, 2005
- Some kind of hike but I’ve forgotten what and where… ;-)
***November 11, 2005
- Short-ish hike at Calero County Park, mainly with the goal of trying out a new lens.
***November 20, 2005
- Slightly different loop at Almaden Quicksilver. Up from Hacienda to the Almaden Trail turnoff and from there to near Mockingbird Hill, [...]

2005October

I’m afraid I neglected this log during the first part of the month. I know that I did a bunch of short hikes at Almaden in addition to those things listed below.
***October 8, 2005
- Sierra driving curcuit over Carson, Monitor, and Tioga Passes to take photos of fall color.
***October 9, 2005
- Some kind of Almaden [...]

2005September

***September 2, 2005
- Finally back to New Almaden Quicksilver after not hiking there for a month. Went up Mine Hill to the summit trail junction and then returned via Castillo and Deep Gulch.
***September 4, 2005
- Another little hike at Almaden Quicksilver. This time, started at McAbee entrance and did the usual Senador Mine, Guadalupe Reservoir [...]

2005August

***August 1, 2005
- Day 1 of the Talusdancers pack trip. We start at Agnew Meadow and hike past to Shadow Lake to camp at Rosemarie Lake.
***August 2, 2005
- We hike on down to Reds Meadow. I take a different - and much longer! - route to the store/cafe.
***August 3, 2005
- We leave Reds Meadow (after [...]

2005July

***July 1, 2005
- The month begins with another quick “training hike” at Almaden Quicksilver. This time I simpy headed straight up Deep Gulch to the old Rotary Furnace site and turned around and retraced my steps. (Along the way I met a nice group of folks from the New Almaden Mining Museum, who were comparing [...]

2005June

***June 4, 2005
- Nice little hike early this morning at Almaden Quicksilver - up Mine Hill to the summit, then back toward Castillero with a detour over on Wood Road, and finally descending back to the parking lot via Deep Gulch.
***June 11, 2005
- Did one of the standard loops at Almaden Quicksilver. From Hacienda out [...]

2005May

***May 1, 2005
- It finally felt like a real spring day today - actual warmth on my short loop hike at Almaden Quicksilver. Mockingbird Hill out past my favorite canyon with flowers (many Fairy Lantern flowers) and then up the further lateral to the trail down via Buena Vista mine.
***May 7, 2005
- Up Mine Hill [...]

2005April

***April 2, 205
- Up Mine Hill to the summit and then back down via Deep Gulch.
***April 3, 2005
- With limited time - and cloudy weather - I just did the New Almaden Trail to Buena Vista Mine to Randol to New Almaden Trail loop out of Mockingbird Hill.
***April 10, 2005
- Javelina Loop at Calero Park. [...]