Hiking at Point Reyes

In the last few weeks I realized that I explored quite a bit of the Bay Area and the surrounding regions, but I've hardly ever been to to the North Bay, except for two bouldering trips to Stinson Beach. So I figured it was about time to change that with a hike at Pt. Reyes National Seashore.
Pt. Reyes is located 30 miles north of San Francisco along HW 1, what makes getting there already a beautiful outing.
We started our hike at the Five Brooks trailhead and picked Alamere Falls as a destination...
To get there we chose a loop consisting of the Olema Valley trail, the Bolema Trail, the Ridge Trail, the Lake Ranch Trail, and the Coast Trail. We started hiking shortly before noon and climbed the first few miles through a forrest to the ridge, from here the trail dropped through brush lands to the ocean. We reached the turn-off to the falls after a couple of hours.

It's an absolutely gorgeous place! After the rain in the last few days the falls were running pretty well. Being there on a Monday had the advantage that no one else was around, an extra bonus!

We took the Coast trail, the Old Out Road trail, Alamea trail and Steward trail back out to the parking lot, to complete an approximately 15 mile hike, which took us 6 hours, with plenty of breaks... Since we hadn't anticipated the hike to be quite as long we hadn't brought any food and were almost starving by the time we reached the car. The fish tacos we picked up in Stinson Beach hit the spot real well!