{"id":97,"date":"2008-05-11T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/360-San-Rafael"},"modified":"2008-05-11T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T10:49:00","slug":"360-san-rafael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2008\/05\/11\/360-san-rafael\/","title":{"rendered":"360 San Rafael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYesterday I took a walk into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahiker.com\/northbayhikes\/barbier.html\">Barbier Park<\/a>,<br \/>\nclimbing up San Pedro Mountain. It&#39;s really just a big hill on the<br \/>\nNorth side of the San Rafael valley, but it is big enough to have very<br \/>\nnice views.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe trail starts at the end of a cul-de-sac in a quiet neighborhood,<br \/>\nand is initially quite steep, but soon levels out and is a much easier<br \/>\nwalk. It took me about 45 minutes to get fairly close to the top\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI expected to get to one of the highest peaks and take in some<br \/>\npanoramic vistas, but actually the radio relay stations or suchlike are<br \/>\nsurrounded by security fences and dense bush on either side of the<br \/>\ntrails, and the best views are to be found about 3\/4 of the way up:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/colin\/pics\/2008\/Panorama_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Panorama_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a true 360 view, with San Pablo Bay in the North East, Mt<br \/>\nDiablo far away in the East, the Richmond Bridge in the South-East, and<br \/>\nthe San Rafael valley in the South-West, and the glorious Mt Tamalpais.<br \/>\nThe Sun is thinking about setting in a couple of hours, behind the hill<br \/>\nto the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I took a walk into Barbier Park, climbing up San Pedro Mountain. It&#39;s really just a big hill on the North side of the San Rafael valley, but it is big enough to have very nice views. The trail starts at the end of a cul-de-sac in a quiet neighborhood, and is initially quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}