Sierra Club aka 'The Mature Adult Hiking Club'

Last Saturday my roommate Amanda and I went on a hike with the Sierra Club. Apparently we are the only two people who didn't realize Sierra Club = Older, middle aged members. I am pretty sure the hike leader was about 80. Don't get me wrong, that's awesome, but it was just funny when we showed up and were quite younger then everyone else there. One gentleman actually suggested looking online at meetup.com to meet younger hikers like ourselves!
(And he didn't mean it in a bad way at all, he was just sharing)

Anyways, we chose this hike in particular because it was on Black Mountain, up in Marin, which resides on a private ranch protected by the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT). They help preserve farmland in the bay area and offer some cool farm tours and educational classes that I may try to partake in at some point.

So, we started off at this farm
We could see Black Mountain in the background (plus this was a good excuse to capture a couple fellow hikers in the pic)
It was a sunny, nice day out, with only the wind becoming a nuisance as we climbed higher.
These trees were super fun
Plus, since it was farmland, we saw some cattle grazing, and fun little things like this:

At parts, the trail was fully covered with tall grass, it was so fun to wade through and watch as the wind created waves through it.

I had a hard time trying to capture how steep part of this climb actually was. The incline was so steep at points that I could barely step one full foot length in front of myself. This is the best shot I have trying to show the incline, that's another hiker way at the top.

But the last little umpf was well worth it. We got to the top and had a wonderful view of the surrounding farms and farmland. Plus the poppies were in bloom!


Enjoying a wonderful turkey & avocado sandwich from Bi-Rite

Resting (when we should have been listening to MALT talk about the land projects, teehee)

On the hike back down Amanda & I took some time to frollick in the grass.
Weee!

Then we posed triumphantly with our conquered mountain behind us


Upon our return, we were greeted by this lovely horse.


And that basically sums it up!