MrGrumpy Goes Hiking...

With all this new technology monitoring his movement, MrGrumpy wants to make the most of it.
He was going to go for a hike, first things first, he needed to get some water and snackbars to keep him going. Normally he would just drive down the road and get them, but today he was going to walk.
To the shop and back is 2.1 miles, not a bad start to his day. He brought Vitamin water and some Special K protein bars, they should do the trick.

So off he went, he was heading to Castle Rock state park in the Santa Cruz mountains. When he arrived the car park was full, so like many others he found a spot on the side of the road.

He started the trial towards Castle Rock, 0.3 miles almost all up hill, fitbit recorded a 16 floor climb in 5 minutes. At the top there was quite a rock, not quite the size of as castle but a decent size.After 10mins or so now he headed off to the real trail.
This being his first hike in quite a long while, he decided to head along the Saratoga Gap trail to the campsite and back, it is shown as 2.8m each way.

He set off at his usual brisk pace, it was quite an easy trail, some very nice views over the tree covered valleys below.

At the campsite he stopped for a few minutes and had a cereal bar and some vitamin water ready for the hike back.

Hiking back was not quite so easy, it was more uphill and his initial pace was starting to take its toll. He made it back in just about an hour and was pleased with that.

He knew that tomorrow his legs would be suffering for this, for now he was pleased to sit in the mustang and go for a drive.

It was now gone 1pm and MrGrumpy wanted to get some lunch, he drove along some really nice twisty roads, a little narrow in places with very few barriers and some unforgiving drops. He was on La Honda Road and as he got to the crossroads he recognised that he was at Alice's, so stopped for a beer and lunch. 

He sat at the bar and ordered a beer, he felt this was well deserved given the effort he had put into this morning. Looking at the menu, he chose a Grilled chicken in a french roll, it came with chips (which MrGrumpy had forgot means crisps).
Sat at the bar he got talking to a MrBMWBiker who was on a 10 day tour from Vancouver, he was riding a BMWK1200S and had ridden in from Tahoe this morning. After MrBMWBiker had left it was only a couple of minutes before another biker sat down, when he ordered MrGrumpy was surprised to hear a british voice. MrGrumpy and MrAdMan got chatting for about being in the US, he had been in the US for 10 years or so, New York and San Fran and did not miss much of the UK. He specifically like being able to ride his Triumph all year round in California.

As MrGrumpy left Alice's there were a couple of nice cars parked either side of the steps.

As MrGrumpy headed down the twisty roads, the traffic came to a halt, just before a really tight bend. A few moments after he had stopped the Highway patrol arrived. It was obvious there had been some type of accident, time to do a U turn and head down another way.
Back home the data from the fitbit was automatically uploaded and he was able to see just how much he had done over the day. Time to relax and watch Netflix (oh and work on the blog)...