Our favorite hiking place, which is known to all as "the dish" caught fire yesterday. The dish is located in the foothills above Stanford University and used to be a series of meandering paths, some of which lead to two large satellite dishes. About 7 years ago they closed of the majority of the area for environmental reasons and created one long paved loop which has become wildly popular for hikers and joggers. The loop is a little over 3 miles long, and has some pretty steep hills that will kick your butt and amazing scenery and wildlife to go along with it. On clear days you can see all the way to San Francisco.
We loaded up the kids and drove as close to the fire as we could to watch the helicopters and planes dropping loads of water on the fire. It was most entertaining, but the whole time I wondered what happened to those little oak tree sapling I helped plant back in high school to replace others destroyed in a previous fire. Sigh.
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what about tahoe - is that house ok - i wanted to ask yesterday but forgot - so many fires right now
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