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We headed out to the coast of the San Francisco Peninsula for the day, doing a walk along Half Moon Bay and looking at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse.
This was another travel day, but before going to San Jose, we went up Lassen Peak.
We did a shorter hike with the group and joined them for lunch by a lake. We then spent the afternoon in Shingletown.
The itinerary for this day was very fluid, and we ended up about half an hour behind everyone else. We went to Bumpass Hell, which is sort of like many features of Yellowstone in one area. We also did a driving tour of some of the other highlights in the park.
Our first full day at Lassen Volcanic National Park ended up being a piecemeal day, rather than the organized outings in Redwood National Forest. Things worked out, though, and we went up a cinder cone and hung out a bit with the group for lunch.
This was a travel day, but before heading inland, we did a short trail to a waterfall. On the way, temperatures went up about 50° then down about 15° when we got to our destination.
Another day with a longer single hike. This time we went to a fern-lined canyon, which was even more interesting than it sounds.
The day centered around a couple of hikes through groves connected with a long trail. For all the distance, we ended hiking at about the same time as the day before.
This was the first day that everyone on the Redwood/Lassen trip were together. We hiked in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, which itself is part of Redwood National Park. We did a couple of hikes among the redwoods, and had a bit of excitement both going to the trails and after the hikes.
We continued working our way south along the Oregon Coast. We saw sea lions, sand dunes, and a lot of sea stacks. After that, we made it into California and met up with a lot of other group members who took the direct route rather than the meandering down the coast that we did.
