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Baby hedgehogs with their new mother. Picture from the Daily Mail.

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view through the fog at the Sweeney Ridge trail

Natasha and I decided to go hiking on the Peninsula today, thinking it might be a little warmer than San Francisco. We were wrong. As you can see in the photo above, the trail at Sweeney Ridge was covered in fog and possibly haunted. Granted, the exposure settings on my camera helped make it look extra gloomy but it was freezing and windy nonetheless.

San Andreas Lake (source of the name of the San Andreas Fault) as seen from the trail when the fog subsided

My favorite part of the trail was the entrance near the parking area. The gate is the sort used to enter a pasture, there is a small space to one side of the main gate for pedestrians to pass through but the main part was locked with no less than eight locks of varying sizes. This seems like the level of security assigned to nuclear weapons in cold-war era movies, so it kind of makes me wonder what is being kept out of this park (or kept in?).