Mission Peak

You know something,
it's just damn hard to get some exercise when u are abroad.
With all the good food & leisure sightseeing,
getting fat is sooo easy!

BUT... inspired by some colleagues,
i decided to do something i have never done before...
to conquer a mountain!
in my case, it is just plain Mission Peak,
not Everest or K2 or Kinabalu or Kilimanjaro.
just Mission Peak... no climbing gear needed whatsoever.


Mission Peak up ahead. Few days back, said i was going to climb this mountain, but then a cute gal made me realise it was actually walking up this mountain. Oh well, technicality... :p
So there, my goal, to conquer this peak by WALKING up the nicely prepared man-made trail (By the way, there are plenty of signboards to show u the way up, so even an idiot won't get lost).


A pair of cows hogging this bench... darn couldn't even rest my own ass.


This picture shows 2 very important things.
Firstly the rocks lying around the grassy areas was caused by an earthquake which shooked pieces of rocks off the mountains in the background. Yup yup, California lies in the earthquake zone, along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Oh and secondly, this cow is damn furry.


And now for next picture.... finally conquered the Mission Peak. Took me more than an hour and a half to get up here, slowed down by some phototakings and marvelling at Nature's creation.
The view here was quite refreshing, though not as scenic or grand like the Yosemite. But good enough considering i came up here all on my own.


The view from the top, overlooking Fremont and part of the San Francisco Bay (just the shallow sedimented parts though).
Notice the approximate "boundary" between the human township & the mountains? This is the Hayward Fault, and I am standing on it.
California is nicely sandwiched between the San Andreas Fault and the Hayward Fault. And so according to Professor Chin (from the Institute of Lost Monkey City, which was destroyed by earthquake many years ago), California should shake like jello when Earthquake strikes.