Seeing as how my birthday technically fell after the Miami trip, I decided to extend things into the following weekend. And nothing says fun like a marathon weekend of house partying, mountain climbing and dancing on your mostly dead legs at the Hollywood Bowl. Yes? Yes. I had a little party out on my back deck the Friday after my birthday and spent the entire following day cleaning up. But a good night is always well worth the layer of cans bottles and general slime, I think...
Sunday was the crazier day because we woke up nice and early to hike Mt. Baldy and then had to race home and change before hitting the Hollywood Bowl for a show. In the planning stage this seemed like a fine idea, but Mt. Baldy is 10,064 ft. It's a day hike but still mildly murderous.
You can actually see the mountain from Los Angeles (seen below in Wintertime) and we even occasionally ski up there if the snow line dips down far enough to cover the closer mountains. But this hike was in August so a little bit more color to see along the way.
Although we did have to battle all manner of fearsome forest creatures...
We had a quick break at the warming hut at the halfway point (which I later learned is more like 3/4, a sneakily helpful fact) before trudging all the way up.
Its the climb down that really starts to wear on you though, because now matter how warm it was when you started it is god awful cold and windy up at the top and allll along 'devil's backbone' on your way down.
Let's just say heaven is a cold beer in a ski lodge followed by a chairlift ride to your car.
And nothing helps rest those dead legs quite like 3 solid hours of dancing at the Bowl! Weekend planning committee gets minus one star for this, but it was still a blast and the survival of my 26th birthday will not soon be forgotten.
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