Echo Mountain
Altadena front country We hiked up to Echo Mountain to watch the fireworks. In this case, "we" is a group of 12 people I mostly don't know who are mostly in Abbie's boyfriend's lab. We met around 4:30PM to head up the trail, probably getting started around 5PM. Today has been hot and humid and we were quite hot going up. Eventually we were stopping for every bit of shade we could find. We ended up one of the first groups up of those aiming to see fireworks. Most people came as it was getting dark, but we all got to watch the sunset and look around the place in the light. As the day was humid, visibility wasn't great. This manifested itself mostly in a layer of dingy air over the cities, but it didn't go up very high. The valleys were quite invisible, but mountains sticking up out of it from time to time seemed perfectly clear. As the sun faded and the lights went on the distant lights became just a uniform smearing ...