Hiking Backpacks

I’m leaving San Francisco on July 20th and heading to Asia. So, I’ve been trying to get as much hiking in as I can before I leave. I had a really bizzarre experience yesterday in the east bay (Havey Canyon). I was hiking with one of my best friends and her boyfriend through the rolling hills of pasture lands. It was stunningly beautiful - we could see San Francisco and all the other towns surrounding us and the bay. There were cows all over the place, sometimes blocking the trail. There was one group of cows with some babies at the top of a hill. One baby was right on the path and the mother was looking at us angrily as we approached. The mother started rearing up at us and tried to chase us away. We ran away a little bit and pondered what we should do.

After a deliberating we decided that we should climb down into the bushes on the side of the hill and then come back up out of the bushes once we had gotten passed the cows. We started into the bushes and found that they were full of thorns and stinging nettles and other nastiness, but we kept going anyway. We could see the mother cow glaring at us through the bushes, steam coming out of her nostrals - probably amused at her power to scare away humans.

I thought it was really funny that 3 kids from the midwest got scared into the bushes by some silly cows!