hello bloggineers we are at pinnacles
national park east and we're going to
show you the fun things you can do here
our first hike of the day is the condor
gulch trail and we're only hiking to the
viewpoint which is one mile each way
those rock things are called pinnacles
and they were formed when volcanoes
erupted watch out for that this
there's blue jays over there
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this entire trail is uphill it's like a
gradual uphill uh
if my energy started at 10 i'm now at
7.5
but the good thing is that the next mile
going back down will be so fun and easy
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the california condors are flying around
i see two up there they're an endangered
species and the park is known for them i
think it's one of the few release sites
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we made it to the viewpoint
uh i was really wondering when that mile
would end but it finally did if you want
you can keep going up for another 0.7
miles but we're not doing that
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this is the view we get we can see many
trees and hills uh it's not the most
spectacular hiking viewpoint but it's
really good oh you also see how down we
were earlier i can't wait to go down
that will be so easy
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we're hiking to our second and final
trail of the day the moses spring trail
but since the parking lot up there is
full we have to hike an extra 0.3 miles
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that was actually less than 0.3 that was
less than a quarter
we have reached the trail head of the
moses spring and rim trail loop it's 2.5
miles round trip
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this is the start of the loop all right
we're voting to go up first so that we
can go all the way down later anyway
while we're walking we'll give our
review of the last trail
the
the condor
the condor gold i think it was pretty
good the
view wasn't no i would yeah the view was
okay
the view the view was okay
it's probably the grandest view of the
pinnacles area that we've gone in it was
nice and yeah huh on the way back
yeah oh yeah go going back down it took
us 20 minutes which is an average of
three miles per hour but usually we're
way slower
we saw a few condors and they don't look
super special unless you're like up
close
there's a mini cave over here but it's
not the large cave with the bats
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at this point you can normally veer left
to the bat cave but right now it's
closed for a few months because the bats
need to nurture their babies
wow
wait wait wait
so earlier while we were at that mini
cave there was a guy playing really loud
music in there while taking a photo this
just the psa please do not play music
especially unless you have like ear buds
or whatever when you go to national
parks because if you if you want to
listen to music just do in the car or
the house or something
there's a nice view of trees and
mountains here and i actually think this
is better than the viewpoint from the
condor gulch
yesterday when we were at the ranger
station the ranger said that on this
trail the cave is pretty much underneath
what
no
wow oh yeah so so these boulders are
what make the cave and you can see the
cave down there the way this cave was
formed was that huge boulders
fell down and because of gravity they
can't go down anymore
so now it's just like this
it appears that the lower cave is open
so we're gonna go down
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never mind it's closed the inside of
this cave is pretty developed there's
stairs and handrails
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this wall is for rock climbing it looks
really tricky but i guess if you have
equipment it's fun
we're taking a little break here under
the rocks in the
half cave and food tastes so good when
you're in the middle of nowhere
they should open a pizza stand
look there's a nest i think
oh wait there's water be careful oh wow
there is water
wow
we've reached the reservoir and this is
the biggest body of water that we've
seen at pinnacles national park it's not
as impressive as the lakes in colorado
but still not bad we're now going on the
rim trail which is a different way back
and i think it's
point
well
on my digital map it says it's 0.7 miles
but here's this 1.2 miles so i don't
know
and that is the east side of pinnacles
national park my favorite thing was the
bear culture trail which is this one
because it took you to caves
uh and the reservoir plus you also get
to be in the forest in the beginning i
think the other name for is the moses
spring trail basically you start out in
like a forest and then you see the
valley then go through the caves and
then you hike up some stairs and reach
this point but i think it would be
better if the bat cave was open yeah
then then i'll be like ten times better
the batcave looks so cool but it was it
was still nice as it was way better than
i expected for national park
expectations i would give the west side
of this park a 2.7 out of five because
there just wasn't much to see but this
and the east side i would give it a 3.7
it's still
it's still not as great as other
national parks like sequoia or death
valley and i'm sure yellowstone and
yosemite are great uh this
yeah i see this more as a state park
still but it's it's pretty nice and i
think my reading would be even better if
we got to go inside the cave we just
came at the wrong time of the year and
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