(I think the second highest is physically simpler, but navigationally hard—in the "walk several miles across this flat plateau with no real landmarks" sense. Ben Nevis is fun insofar as you start at something like 15m, so you really do climb the whole thing.)
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oh wow this is basically almost twice the grade of the steeper Mt Tam route which I did. Same distance, almost double the elevation.
I feel like this is still doable though, it's not very long and you can take breaks.
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The nice thing about the peaks in the Bay is that the main weather concern is the fog ruining the views.
(And the heat for something in the interior like Diablo, but it's not something you can't handle, just annoying)
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At the tops it can be cold in winter... could enough for snow to accumulate. Still not too bad compared to other parts of the world.
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I've seen white tops on the peaks between Palo Alto and the ocean once (Mozilla folks were in town for it too... it was the time we had a room at Stanford) and on the east bay hills visible from Palo Alto/Mountain View multiple times. Usually melts same day, though.
Jul 23, 2018 · 5:14 AM UTC
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