Mission Peak

lol this sucks, I thought I made this post 2 days ago when I actually finished walking the mountain with Justin. We decided to hike mission peak at around 3pm but ended up actually starting at 6pm. I had already finished swimming in the afternoon and doing some squat workouts and some more cardio at the gym. My legs were already tired before I started hiking but it was a good hike because I did take a lot of pics of the scenery.

this was the first bench/checkpoint. The sun was hitting all the smog or clouds but I couldn't get a better shot

Actually, this was the better shot but it looked a little dark to me. 

baby rattlesnake!!! it was like the size of my palm but I didn't wanna risk getting TOO close 

Me and Justin both found out that we had the exact same camelbak! His had a thermal covering for his water and his was blue while mine was green. LOL it was amazingggg how we both randomly had the SAME bag for water. We both wanted to turn back but I've never been to the top of Mission Peak and Justin wanted to take me there. We both encouraged each other so it was good that we made it!

we finally made it! a random asian guy with two hiking sticks helped us take the picture! *thank you random Chinese man!!

I got some pictures of the sunset but I didn't even realize that the sun was setting. Me and Justin were both just like "stupid sun, get outta the way!!" cuz it was super bright when I was trying to get some pictures of the clouds. 

look AT THE GLARE!! 

but it's a cool looking sunset. lol

these are the clouds I was trying to take a picture of. THERE'S THE ASIAN GUY WHO HELPED TAKE THE PICTURE!!

It was freezing at the top though, next time I go, i'm packing a blanket and some gloves if I wanna hang out at the top longer. my hands are getting chilly just thinking about it!! It got dark pretty quick but we took some shortcuts down so we cut off like 20-30 minutes from the hike down. I ran outta water near the end but it wasn't that bad since we were like 5 minutes from the bottom. I took a picture at the top of the mountain of the Bay Area all lit up. 

Oh, so pretty!!  hahaha

The whole thing took about 3 hours up and down but I'll have to plan a little more time since my parents and a lot of other people wanted to also go up mission peak. I've never been but now I know the route so I'm a little more confident now. It was fun though, I'll definitely have to go up again.