Blogs from Mission Peak, Fremont, California, United States, North America

Who says you can't go on an awesome adventure 20min from your home? =D I've been hiking Mission Peak for years, and it's become very popular in recent years. Everyone wants that iconic picture with the pole on the Peak. I think more people climb on it than use it for its intended purpose- to peer through the eye holes at various landmarks. Anyway, we're going to New Zealand next week to backpack the Routeburn Track. The first day of which will be a 1500ft elevation ascent over 5.5miles. Mission Peak is a 5.5mile roundtrip hike with a 2000ft elevation change. So I used this trail the past couple months on a nearly weekly basis as practice for New Zealand. I figure if I can do that, Routeburn will be cake. Sometime in January when I ... read more

Fremont, 12-11-2002. We drive up to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. It goes up and up with fir and cedar trees lining the road. Down below I can see Fremont whch from up here look quite a bit bigger as I at first suspected. Pete is going on again about his big passion for the brunettes of this world even though there is not a single brunette in sight, nothing but trees, birds and more trees. I guess if it was up to Pete all these trees might as well be brunettes, that way he would be in paradise. Just before we reach the park we see a small red colored cat crossing the road. Too big to be a stray house cat and not big enough to be a cougar, backtracking we see this elusive ... read more

This Saturday we made a spontaneous plan of going for hike. It was supposed to be cold and windy but sunny weekend. Initially we were thinking of going for a hike in Muir Woods; however, considering the weather conditions we zeroed down to Mission Peak Preserve near Fremont. Even though this was a spontaneous plan, Pranav, Mohnish, Ruchi, and Saket also joined us. We started around 1 pm. It’s a 5.6 miles roundtrip hike. However, it is quite steep, especially in the beginning and at the end. Weather channel stated it would be a windy day. When we started the hike, we thought how windy it could be! Oh yeah… it can be really windy! In fact, it was stormy at the peak! Few of us had hiked in a recent past. Hence, all of ... read more