Today
me and a group of friends from NerdStrong went to Vasquez Rocks. I have
been there many times (since I lived so close to them a few years ago)
but this was everyone else first time. The adventure started off a bit
rocky as parking can be confusing and I guess I wasn't clear enough for
our meet up point so it took nearly an hour to gather everyone in the
right location and what made matters worse is that cell phone reception
in sketchy at best there. But once everyone was together we started by climbing the
main rock (actually named Vasquez's Rock), it's the one that most
people recognize from all the TV shows and movies.
This
is always a fun climb though it can be daunting as it gets pretty steep
and there isn't much to hold on to but it's well worth the climb to get
to the top. About half of the group decided to give it a try while the
others found another rock close by to climb instead.
After
climbing the rock we started our 2 hour hike. I have been all over this
park so I knew where I wanted to take these guys. I wanted to do a
large loop so we didn't have to repeat any sections but as we got to the
turning point the sun as going down and the park closed at sundown so
we decided to just take the quickest way back but as I said I didn't
want to go the same way so I tried to improvise and got a lost a few
times.. well not actually lost but we had to backtrack and find a
different way off of a cliff.
Overall it was a great
adventure. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the hike and were excited to
do it again. I think next time we are going to try and dress up in some
Star Trek uniforms and get some nice group photos.
Afterwards Lauren, Shannon and I went out and grabbed a bit to eat before calling it a day.
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