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。
2019-06-13
Briones Regional Park Day Hiking
<Japanese version is after English>日本語は英語の後にあります。
There are many great day hiking places in the San Francisco Bay Area. Briones Regional Park is one of them located in the East Bay.
I like parks in East Bay when all the hills get green after rain. Once I went hiking in Briones after rain. I really like a number of rolling hills suddenly all get green in East Bay. It is exciting.
This day after a big rain, the trail got muddy. Even though my feet got wet, I thought it was good, because California has been in drought for a long time.
Usually trails in the East Bay parks are really wide. It is good for me who is super sensitive to poison oak. I even get rash from poison oak by just walking nearby without touching them. Once I had systemic rash for more than 3 weeks. I couldn't focus on working without ice packs on rashes all the time. Without putting ice packs on rash, it was extremely itchy and couldn't do anything!
Anyway, after rainy days, dirt wide trails even get green. This is pretty. It was nice to walk on a fluffy road. Somehow this park is much less crowded compared to other parks nearby, such as Tilden or Cataract falls. I love those parks as well, but sometimes I need to be at more quiet places. Sitting on green grass and looking at green mountains are precious time. It always energizes me.
At the end of hike there was a big bonus. I saw a coyote! A healthy looking coyote was running on the hill. Maybe he was excited as well on a sunny day after rain. He was running downhill. It was lucky to see such a cute coyote.
If you are interested, you can check out the map here at official park site. There are many trails: you can hike short or long. https://www.ebparks.org/parks/briones/default.htm
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