Thursday, May 23, 2019

2019.5.23. Sunset at Dog Mountain.

5/23, Thursday. Hot and sunny in the city when we left ~3:30pm. 20% chance of thunderstorm was in the forecast for the afternoon. We started hiking shortly before 5pm, still warm, but getting cloudy. The parking lot was ~60% full. Around 6pm, sure it came, thunder and rain, for about half an hour. Thankfully, we were still in the woods, so not raining too hard. I had my umbrella. Wind blew the clouds to the east, we we had a proper sunset. When we returned, only 5 cars in the parking lot.

We did this loop: took Augsperger up, and Dog down. Flowers were a bit past prime, but still beautiful. After reaching the summit, we waited for the sunset lower down by the trail amidst of flowers. Back to the trailhead around 10pm.