Climbing over rocks like a kid

View from the summit
A view from the Mount Diablo summit tower. The low lying fog made seeing into the valleys a bit tough, but one could still for hundreds of miles.
User: Austin Explorer - 1/17/2015

Location: Mount Diablo State Park

Rating: 4stars
Difficulty: 4stars  Solitude: 3stars
Miles Hiked: 1.82 Miles  Elapsed Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes

Comments:

Coppertone and I ended up doing as much climbing over rocks as we did hiking here.  The number and variety of boulders to crawl over is amazing.  The soft sandstone provides fairly good traction and over the years secure foot and handholds have been worn into the rock.

From the Rock City parking area we started walking down trails at random and stopping at any rock outcropping that looked interesting.  The track file included here had to be heavily edited to get rid of all of the zig zags as we went from one rock to another.

After getting our fill of scrambling over rocks we drove to the summit to have a look at the view from atop Mount Diablo.



Log Photos
Looking out
To the top
Towards the summit
Toward Sentinel Rock
Sentinel View
We made it
Wind Caves
Grotto
Indian Grinding Holes
Summit Area
View from the summit
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