Hiking Mori Point - catching up for the miss

Towards end of last year we had made a plan to hike Mori point in Pacifica, at sunset again, but bad weather made us change plans and go to Windy hill instead. To make up for that we made Mori point the first group hike of the year! 10 of us made a great evening of it including a “chaifie” at the top.

We caught a beautiful sunset..

These pictures say it all..

My hike buddies keep taking pictures of me taking pictures. Loved this one.. Did put the iPhone upside down into the wet sand and got some shots that made me happy! They are in the gallery..

A few snaps and San and me enjoying the cold breeze!

The orignal plan was to grow the beard through the 60 day challenge and see how it looks.. after this hike and seeing the photos, the beard was off. It survived 12 days..

Another “bench photo” to add to our collection..

We would recommend hiking here any day.. especially if you can make it back down to see the sunset! There used to be a nice swing in this beach.. it is gone now! Glad we had the chance to sit on it and take pictures!

A short video including a timelapse of the sunset at the end..

Hope we have a great year of hiking for 2025!

Pedro point and a Pacifica sunset

This weekend saw yet another hike. This one turned out to me more interesting than we had planned.

There were no benches on this one but a small cut log which made for a great view point.. We could sit there for hours and enjoy the breeze!

The idea was to drive to the Devil's slide parking lot and hike to Pedro's point and get a scenic view of the bay and the sunset and come back. The one word in that previous sentence that did not work our way ? "PARKING"

It took us an hour to get there because of the traffic. It was 80 degrees in Cupertino and a nice 71 in the coast. So the entire bay area decided to go there! There was no parking. We tried four different lots around the area and after 50 minutes, we decided to start from the beach by walking along the road to a different trail head. 

Parked outside a strip mall opposite to the beach (there was no beach parking either and there were plenty of bad and irate drivers to make it dangerous to just wait in the parking lot!). That added another mile to the plan each way.. and given we had lost an hour to find parking.. we hiked like never before. 

Amazing views from all sides!

took this picture as we were running down.. 

Things were going great till we went to the top of the view point and realized we were very late. So we decided to take a "private trail" that showed up on Alltrails map that would go directly from the top to Devils slide. This thing turned out to be not much of a trail and was downright dangerous. We were slipping and almost fell. So we decided to climb back up, double up our speed to make it to Devils slide. 

We did get 15 minutes to watch the sun and drink chai before racing back!

It was a pretty steep hike right at the start but the views made up for it. We barely made it to Devils slide as the sun was setting. So we rushed back to the parking (it was all downhill but we had to be careful) and caught the post sunset hues in the beach before driving back!

On a normal day when we would have had an extra hour and parked at the right place, this would have been easy and pleasant. Think we should revisit it on a working day by taking leave just to get parking! 

The sunset experience was refreshing as usual.. 

Strongly recommend this (minus the private trail) on a non busy day!