Mount Falcon sunset

Mount Falcon sunset

Today was a bad day. This morning I heard that one of my nephews died. I am really sad for his family and especially my uncle Ger. Then later today my friend and colleague Manuel was found dead in Mount Falcon open space park after going missing yesterday. My thoughts are with his family. He was a great friend and coworker and I published several really nice papers with him. For him I dug up this panorama I made several years ago (2008) but never posted anywhere. It was taken near the ruins of the summer presidential house that is up near the top of Mount Falcon. Manuel loved this park for biking and hiking probably even more than I do. Click the image for a bigger version. Facebook post.

Sign of spring

Spotted this Pasque flower on a bike ride (another test ride) a few days ago.



These are quite pretty flowers that only bloom for a short while in spring around Easter as their name suggests.

On the same bikeride, I also took this pano of an area that burned a few years ago. It's close to the upper parking lot (I rode from below of course, I don't take shortcuts) in the Mount Falcon open space park. Mount Falcon is popular amongst Mountain Bikers because it is a good long uphill slog that is not very technical giving a good afterwork workout and has some good singletrack in the back on Parmalee Gulch.