{"id":630,"date":"2019-03-23T05:17:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T05:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wandering.earth\/?p=630"},"modified":"2022-01-29T19:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T03:43:51","slug":"mt-diablo-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/2019\/03\/23\/mt-diablo-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Diablo March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Updated with a second Mt Diablo hike&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>So after a February that was almost nothing but rain, the skies finally cleared for a weekend in March and the temperature spiked to late spring levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, this meant I have to go climb something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided Mt Diablo deserved some attention and headed up from Marsh Creek Road towards Mt Olympia. A steep, yet pleasant trail climbed up a  ridge to the top of Mt Olympia (2,946 feet). After taking a well deserved break at the top, I headed over to North Peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pretty easy traverse over, but the last 200 feet is a grueling climb up a steep and rough road that isn&#8217;t much of a road. Lots of loose pebbles make going up or down this slope a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top of North Peak (3,557 feet) is unfortunately covered by a microwave tower, but is still a nice peak to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could have gone over to the main summit of Mt Diablo (3,849 feet) from here, but that meant a 600 foot decent and climbing 900 feet and at least 3 to 4 miles of hiking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided the two peaks were enough for that day, so after enjoying the view from nearby rock outcroppings, I made my way down the east side of the North Peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no official trail down this side, but a well used use trail is fairly easy to follow. This is actually the first chance I&#8217;ve had to try this trail and except for a area around a rocky ridge that was tricky to make my way around, the rest was a pretty enjoyable hike back to my Jeep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fun day to enjoy the first real spring weekend of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The following weekend, I hiked up to Diablo&#8217;s Main Summit via the Summit Trail. Yeah, I could have just done it the last weekend, but where would the fun be in that? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also saw my first California Poppy of the year. Only a few individual poppies scattered around, so the big bloom is yet to come. If they come next weekend, I may have to decide if I&#8217;ll hike in Mt Diablo State Park for the third weekend in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wanderingjim\/sets\/72157706038422751' title='Mt Diablo March 2019 by WanderingJim, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7805\/47355119542_610900dbd6_c.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='IMG_2548'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Flickr album with pictures of these hikes, plus a few pictures of a 180 degree rainbow a few days earlier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Updated with a second Mt Diablo hike&#8230; So after a February that was almost nothing but rain, the skies finally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-where-ive-been","tag-12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_2630.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg6j8i-aa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandering.earth\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}