Browse to Anderson Valley with Bean

Oh what a hike!  It's one of those that I feel like doing like a little kid and saying, "Are we there yet?"  I love it when we get there, but it is a killer with a LOT of elevation gain over a short distance...but it is totally worth it when you get there.  We sort of got of to a late start and then lost the trail a little and did some back tracking.  After a lunch stop with the steepest part yet to go I secretly wondered if we should just call it and head back.  But we pressed on and made it up to see the little dilapidated cabin.  I just kept thinking that I may just be too old to do this again and better do it now as a final time!  We took a little nap up there, enjoyed what there was to see and then came down...which is almost as bad except you can at least breathe.  When we got to the bottom we visited with the people who were camping at the trailhead.  We had seen them before on horseback and then they passed us going up.  They were very friendly and even shared some leftover Dutch Oven cobbler with us which made me feel a whole lot better!  It was a great hike...and I don't want to do it again for a while, maybe never.  I'm glad we did it then because it is so dry now that the forest service has locked the gate on that area unless we get some "significant rains."  We did it just in time!