{"id":1156,"date":"2020-07-05T05:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:02:44","slug":"an-unexpected-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2020\/07\/05\/an-unexpected-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

I went to Lake Hodges North Shore, an area that I’ve hiked numerous times before so I am pretty familiar with the trails. After hiking the road for about a mile to the boat ramp parking from the east side, I decided on a new trail at the southeast corner of the lot. I figure it would parallel the main trail and probably join back in so I could do a loop returning on the main trail. I started hiking the trail and then it unexpectedly turned south and headed up the hill instead of staying east. Normally, I would think a spur trail would lead to a street or something but there are no streets in that direction, only lake. It looked like the trail led to an overlook and view of Hodges I have never seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had my turnback timer set for half an hour so I could keep my end of the day hike to an hour or so to finished before sunset. My turnback timer expired, but I was only a few minutes from the top so I continued. When I summited, I stopped there for some pics but the trail led on. I got the thought that maybe the trail doubles back around the hill and along the shoreline, but it could just as easily have dead-ended. I saw plenty of tire tracks and footprints, too many I think for an obscure out and back trail, but I hadn’t seen another person from the time I set foot on the trail. The sun was already dipping behind clouds over the hills to the west but I took the gamble and the gamble paid off. The trail looped back around the hilltop following the shoreline. I found the trail exit at the southeast corner of the parking lot just beyond the large boat ramp. I started the hike with expectations of dullness and ended up with a little adventure. It’s an unexpected pleasure to find something different in each outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: Here is the link to a few pics from several training hikes spanning Blue Sky, Lake Hodges, and Bernardo Peak of my unexpected little pleasures on each hike. See https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1fe_aaIGs6lIdSr45Kvnmm6WLY3zGPj9j?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these hikes were part of training for a chance at redemption from my aborted backpacking trip. If you want to follow the thread, start at https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2020\/06\/07\/backed-out-in-the-outback\/<\/a> Then read this one. Then https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2020\/07\/05\/redemption\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Pictures from the particular hike described look rather blue including the feature image. I did not use a blue filter, rather I took indoor pictures the night before and set the white balance to neon lighting. I forgot to turn it back, so in a few of the exposures, you are viewing a neon lit world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>I went to Lake Hodges North Shore, an area that I’ve hiked numerous times before so I am pretty familiar with the trails. After hiking the road for about a mile to the boat ramp parking from the east side, I decided on a new trail at the southeast corner of the lot. I figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,65,62],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","tag-bernardosummit","tag-bluesky","tag-lakehodges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}