3300 Feet Above The Salinas Valley

Last night I took a break from photo competitions, editing wedding and class reunion videos and all that sort of thing and went high atop Fremont Peak to take in the sunset. It was just glorious up there last night. I parked about 1000 feet below the top and hiked up to the summit. The fog was just beginning to roll into the valley below. The "Golden Hour" indeed.

Nearer my God to thee...

High Above the Salinas Valley on a Foggy Day

Fog? What Fog?

We have been having pretty thick fogs for the last several days in the morning. Make that pea soup fogs. So I decided to rise early this morning, 5 o'clock, and see if I could find a spot in the nearby hills above the fog and see what that looked like.

I set out over the San Juan Grade Road that goes up to about 1300 feet. No luck. Total white-out at the top. That left me with Fremont Peak which is about 3500 high. Off I went.

I crossed the Gabilan Mountains on the Grade to near San Juan Bautista. There I picked up the winding road that ascends Fremont Peak. It is about an 11 mile switchback. At about 3000 feet I broke out of the fog.

I stopped and took this "self-portrait."


This was the view looking back down the mountain.



























Santa Cruz Mountains from Fremont Peak.