Carson Falls, Fairfax, Marin County, CA

New Year, New Resolutions. This year, my resolutions include having fun, enjoy life, doing things I want to do, going to places I want to go, of course within reasonable boundaries. First weekend of the new year, January 6, the weather is still quite cold, so going south where it is warmer sounds like a good plan. The destination? Carson Falls, Mountain Tamalpais, in Fairfax, Marin County.

Since most people start the new year with a resolution of getting fit, exercising a bit more, it seems quite a good deal when combining hiking with the beautiful gift of nature. Living in CA for almost 20 years, but I really did not know anything about CA. The places to go to are abundance. The places I have been to area so limited. The fact that there are at least a dozen of beautiful waterfalls within a 4 hour drive radius, and I know nothing about it. For an amateur, the hike to Carson Falls is a good one to start with since the difficult level is moderate, yet the view seems to be spectacular, at least according to the pictures and the comments by those who have been there.

So I was excited to joined my friend on this trip. We have it all planned out: a sleep over on Friday night and an early departure on Saturday. But you can't quite have a girls' night without doing something fun. So despite the fact that the weather was in the 30s (Fahrenheit), after dinner, three of us headed to Leatherby's creamery to have some ice cream. Ordered two big banana split sundaes, since it seems a little cheap and funny for three of us to share just one, we had more than we can handled. The hot tea prior to ice cream to help counter the coldness of the ice cream (according to my friend's creative thinking) did not help us to eat all of the ice cream (probably a good half a gallon of ice cream - vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, coffee- on top of bananas, topped with whipped cream, hot fudge, pineapple sauce, and strawberry sauce. After about 90 minutes or so of eating and talking, we made it home at about 10:30 p.m. But the night did not end just yet. Two more hours of talking, laughing, screaming (not gonna tell you what we did), we made it to bed after midnight.

Whether it was the excitement or just simply because we were too used to our routine, we were up at around 5 a.m. Breakfast? checked. Packing? checked. Shortly after 7 a.m., we hit the road. Carson Falls, ready or not, here we come...........

Trên đường đi, khoảng chừng 10 phút từ trail đến Carson Falls



Bên trái của đường đến Carson Falls: North Pacific Ocean



Most of the pictures of this trip are taken by my friend BK. BK is our unofficial photographer for most of the events and BK's pictures always turn out great.

The trail...



Alpine Lake



The trail as you go further, narrow and stêep at some part with lots of trêes, yet flat and wide open with hardly any trêe at other part...

Reaching the destination, we were a little disappointed...





There was not enough rain, so the falls is rather....dry....But regardless, the view around there is amazing. A great place to hang out and have lunch or picnic, especially romantic for couples...

Trèo núi ngắm thác không thành, nên bọn tôi dắt nhau xuống biển ngắm hoàng hôn...



It's amazing how fast the sun set...











Mặt trời vừa lặn bóng, mặt trăng vội vã lơ lững trên đồi...

The destination is great...but what make it greater are the people you are with and the things you share with them...

The trio being unleashed...

Qua cầu gió bay...



Không biết biển tháng giêng có lạnh không ta...



Trèo cây...



Đường lên dốc đá...



Chơi bấp bênh, ai nặng hơn ai...



So you think you can jump...

À and my favorite... making our own wishing star in the day time...

Khung cảnh đẹp, nên thơ ...hình ảnh sắc sảo ...lại được Z3 tường thuật thật có duyên ...
Z3 ...thanks!

lẳnglặnglòng đã viết:Khung cảnh đẹp, nên thơ ...hình ảnh sắc sảo ...lại được Z3 tường thuật thật có duyên ...
Z3 ...thanks!

Thanks L3. Nhưng mà khung cảnh đẹp, hình ảnh sắc sảo, tường thuật có duyên, vậy còn mấy người trong ảnh thì sao???? Có cái câu quan trọng nhất mà L3 lại lững lờ lấp lơ lẳng lặng lòng là sao?

Có ai đòi được khen 1 cách trắng trợn vậy không ta?

Zee Zữ Zằn đã viết:À and my favorite... making our own wishing star in the day time...

Nhìn mấy bàn tay mình biết ngay tay nào là tay của Z rùi. Ui một thời mình cầm bàn tay kia sơn sơn quét quét....

Có hình mấy bàn chân nữa. Hên Z không có post lên, không thôi V la làng là biết ngay bàn chân nào là của Farmer là quê lắm á