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Black Mountain ::

My son Tim (and my daughter and mom) are visiting from New York this week. This morning I asked Tim what he’d like to do today and he said “climb a mountain.” (We’d climbed Mt. Diablo together on one of his previous visits.)

I browsed around Bay Area Hiker, searching various pages for “Mount.” Mount Tamalpais and San Bruno Mountain were ruled out because both would probably involve more driving than hiking, but Black Mountain looked exciting and just a short drive from my house to the trailhead.

It took us just about 3 hours to make the 4.7 mile/2300 ft. ascent to the top, and about an hour and forty minutes to come back down. As the web page warned, the last mile of the climb was particularly difficult, and we didn’t find the first mile particularly easy either.

Visibility wasn’t great, but we could still see Mount Tamalpais in the distance to the north, Crystal Springs and the San Andreas Fault running through Portola Valley, and all of Silicon Valley from Palo Alto to downtown San Jose and beyond. Looking at my photos, the camera didn’t pick that all up.

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