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| View of Mt. Diablo from Mt. Tamalpais |
I figured it would be quite dry in the woods up on Mt. Tam, but the forest duff was even crunchier than expected. The main event was setting out my trail cams once again, but I'd also hoped to find some fungi to photograph. No such luck.
I didn't run into much traffic on the way up the mountain from Mill Valley, and I wondered if things had gone back to their pre-tech-boom days when I'd be the only one waiting for the ranger to open the gate at 7 a.m. Nope! About a dozen cars were already waiting at the gate when I arrived. A ranger was already there but had apprently brought the wrong key to unlock the gate. Another ranger swooped up a few minutes later to save the morning.
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| Sunrise Watchers |
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| Frosty Trail |
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| One of the highlights of the morning was hearing coyotes howling. A lone coyote carried on near Rock Spring before the sun came up, and again a little after, but got no answering calls. Farther out West Ridgecrest, though, a group of coyotes went off together. It sounded like they were somewhere out in the landscape shown above, but I never saw even one of them. |
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