I am a Japanese female who came to the U.S. for the research opportunity as a scientist.
In my free time, I go hiking, backpacking, XC skiing. I love to be in the deep wilderness. I write my adventures from all over the world and Introduce the beauty of nature, from a viewpoint of Japanese.
日本出身の女性研究者かつハイカー。
休日はハイキング、バックパッキング、クロスカントリスキーなどで多忙。
日本人の視点から見た世界中の自然の美しさを、読者が旅をしているような感覚で読んで頂ければと思い、このブログを作成。
2019-03-24
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge Hike
Japanese journal after English version
I love San Francisco Bay Area. One of the most iconic places in the area is Golden Gate Bridge. Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) is a bridge that connects San Francisco city and the East Bay. It has a famous red color. San Francisco, as known as a fog city, GGB is often in the fog. Sometimes it is completely covered with fog, sometimes beautifully stands on the carpet of fog. As such many foggy days, it is extremely happy to see the entire GGB under sun with blue ocean.
On a sunny day, crossing over GGB by walking, hike the hills and looking at GGB from higher point is really pleasant San Franciscoish hike. Once I did that by hiking 16 miles a day.
GGB over the hill
I started hiking near the GGB of San Francisco side. Then crossed the bridge northbound. There are several ways to cross GGB; walking, running, biking, and driving. I have done all the methods, and liked all.
When you run the bridge, you can notice that each side of GGB is much lower than the center of bridge. Even a slight uphill is hard when you run. GGB sidewalks are open each side to different methods. One side of the sidewalks is for walkers and runners and the other for bikers so that there is no chaos. However, once in a while, you can run on the car lanes. Yes, on the day of San Francisco Marathon day! I ran on the car lanes and it was awesome!
When you walk on GGB on a sunny day, you can see nice blue ocean and San Francisco city. The structure of bridge looks much bigger when you see it on pictures or even driving.
On the 16-mile hike day, after crossing bridge, I climbed up and down on the rolling hills in the Marin Headlands, which is a big park in the area. Hills are very pretty with green. There are many view points with mountains, hills, and beaches. One of the most photogenic point is a view with GGB, San Francisco city with ocean.
Every time I see GGB over the ocean, I feel that I am very fortunate to see the spectacular scenery. I feel I am at one point of earth that gives me refreshing power.
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