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。
2019-03-20
Sunrise Hike in Tilden Regional Park
<Japanese post after English version: 日本語は英語の後にあります>
It is nice to see sunrise in mountains.
Sunrise
One day I went to Tilden Regional Park to see sunrise at the top. To reach at the top of the hill before sunrise, obviously you need to start hiking way before sunrise. That part is tough: I am a night person. Also you need to walk with a head lamp. However, I knew it would be rewarding, so I did!
Tilden Park is near Berkeley and there are many people live in this area, especially many students due to UC Berkeley. It is very popular for local people to hike in Tilden. However, nobody is usually there before sunrise. Most undergrads don't get up before sunrise, of course. I brought Jetboil and coffee instant packages to sip coffee while I would be watching sunrise.
As planned, I reached the top of hills and sat down to wait for sunrise. Jetboil's flare gave me some light. After a few sips of coffee, I noticed that sun was coming. Then after a couple of more sips, sun started rising over the undulating mountains. It was a beautiful, peaceful, and pretty sunrise.
I like sunrise view, because every moment is different. Sky is gradually getting orange, then the moment sun comes up, it was special. The sunrise is like flare.
Sunrise in the mountain top is usually very quiet, because normal people don't climb up so early or camp there. It is priceless (and actually it is free activity).
Eucalyptus
On the way back, I was able to see surrounding things and noticed there are many eucalyptus. There are many eucalyptus trees in California. I love them because it gives me comfortable feelings. When I was in Japan, I thought that eucalyptus was only in Australia for koalas, but I find them in California a lot.
When crowd was arriving the park, I left there and ate big breakfast in Berkeley downtown before crowd would come for brunch.
Sunrise in Tilden: recommended, but you need to be determined.
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