On to Mission Trails

Mission Trails Regional Park is in San Diego, CA. You start from the visitor's center in One Fr. Junipero Serra Trail rd. Then you can choose any one of the trails to climb the nearby mountains. The first time we went there we just hiked along the paved road, and then visited the old dam. That dam was built by the early Spanish mission to the area who could not rely on the San Diego river for their crops, so they thought of the dam idea and that helped them flourish. The dam was built from Granite and mortar stones and we saw remnants of it still there. The next day we climbed up, and the picture shows the scene from the top of the mountain. It is a steep climb, and they say you could see rattle snakes around but we did not see any. The snakes don't like humans in general and would run away from their noise, but even had we met any they would not harm us, unless of course we attacked them first, which we would not have any thought of doing so. For our luck we had Santa Ana weather, which is very dry and hot weather. Other than that it was a nice hike, and I recommend it to everybody who loves nature.