(March 28, 2015 at 1:59 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: That looks really nice. It must be great there in the spring and fall.
It's great in the summer and winter, too.
Now, the summer brings large crowds, and that creates its own set of issues, but I don't mind 105°F afternoons, myself. The wildlife is abundant at that time, and I get plenty of opportunity to observe and learn. The key then is to drink copious amounts of water -- seven or eight liters a day is not unusual for me in that season.
Winters are cool-to-cold, and damp. Temperatures here will occasionally get down into the teens or low twenties, but even so, you heat up quickly hiking three-dimensional terrain. And I'm one of those folks who thinks even the austerity of winter has a beauty all its own -- "January trees with their branches bare."