Another long day complete.
We managed to keep the kids (mostly) sleeping until around 7. We got breakfast from the hotel downstairs, then worked on getting our stuff together. It took longer than I would have liked, but eventually we got everything and everyone downstairs and mounted up.
We knew we wanted to do an overnight as kind of a final exam for our pack list. We considered doing the Sonoma/Napa overnight at did at Thanksgiving a couple years ago, but couldn’t find a hotel for a price we were willing to pay.
We hemmed and hawed, and eventually decided it would be fun to do something starting from home, and settled on a giant Mt Diablo loop. It would give us a chance to (partially) climb it again, and to show the mountain we weren’t afraid of it, even after the fall from Halloween.
The west coast tour doesn’t have much in the way of all-day sustained climbs, so it seemed less important to do the local mountain climbs than it did for the Oregon tour. Still, we figured we ought to do one, and Mt Hamilton won out.
