{"id":473,"date":"2009-03-05T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T08:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-03-05T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T08:20:22","slug":"mount-tamalpais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Mount Tamalpais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mt Tam is my favorite Mountain in the Bay Area. I think I have hiked every trail on it, and I was so happy to go back there last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Leilani walked the distance of one fairy-tale in the beginning and one &#8220;Adventure in the Garden&#8221; shaman story  later on in the hike. She had a runny nose and a little cough, and wanted to be carried all the time<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-s-l.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-s-l.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had left home late, and after just half a mile it was time to eat lunch. We found this cool spot under a fallen tree next to a bridge and pretended to be bridge trolls.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-bridgetrolls.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-bridgetrolls.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-family.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-family.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bridge next to the lunchspot<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-bridge.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-bridge.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course after lunch we also had to climb the tree&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-on-bridgetroll-tree.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-on-bridgetroll-tree.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The waterfalls started small&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-mini-waterfall.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-mini-waterfall.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but as we progressed on the Cataract trail they got bigger<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-waterfall.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-waterfall.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fetid Adders Tongue was the first wildflower we encountered &#8211; it was still cool on the Mountain.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-Fetid-adders-tongue.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-Fetid-adders-tongue.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-a-l-waterfall.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-a-l-waterfall.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-s-waterfall.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-s-waterfall.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-a-l.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-a-l.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-a-caries-l.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-a-caries-l.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-hills.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-hills.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out in the meadows there were a lot more &#8211; tiny &#8211; flowers<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-tiny-pink-flower.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-tiny-pink-flower.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We saw a few mushrooms, but only one edible one  ( not the one below) &#8211; we didn&#8217;t pick it. I had found nice mushrooms in the past weeks in the city, but did not dare to eat them because of pollution. Just one time  Leilani and I picked one, a bolete nice and firm and big and fresh, and took it home, and I was almost relieved when it was all full or worms, I would have worried too much (says someone who ate Cesium Mushrooms 2 and 3 years after Chernobyl&#8230;)<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-lbm.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-lbm.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-l.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-l.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"460\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fairy Slippers are one of the more common orchids on Mt Tam<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-fairy-slipper.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-fairy-slipper.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indian Warrior<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-warrior.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-warrior.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manzanite, and below Baby Blue Eyes<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-manzanita.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-manzanita.jpg' height=\"285\" width=\"380\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-manzanita-flowers.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-manzanita-flowers.jpg' height=\"285\" width=\"214\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-more-baby.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-more-baby.jpg' height=\"285\" width=\"214\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/090228-mt-baby-blue.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/fourth-year\/1\/web\/090228-mt-baby-blue.jpg' height=\"285\" width=\"380\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt Tam is my favorite Mountain in the Bay Area. I think I have hiked every trail on it, and I was so happy to go back there last Saturday. Leilani walked the distance of one fairy-tale in the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}