Pinnacles

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Seeing the sun set across Pinnacles National Monument, while the full moon rises out past the San Andreas fault (below the fold) is pretty awesome.

It would've been nice to see some condors, too. Though the horned lizard was pretty excellent.

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Awesome, when I lived in Bezerkely years ago, my wife and I would head to hills, Mt. Diablo or the Pinnacles every weekend to hike around.