Last Thursday, we left Paso Robles and drove west and up the coast to southern Big Sur to Treebones Resort, where we had booked a 3 night stay. Keeper and I had been to Treebones 3 summers ago (again on our Tour de CA) but we camped both nights. This time around, each couple booked campsites for one night and separate yurts for the next two nights. Treebones is awesome; the views are beautiful, the staff is friendly (hippies usually are) and it is very relaxing. There is no TV and although the lodge boasts free WiFi, it only worked in certain spots so I was lucky to check email once a day on Keeper's iphone.
The first night there, we pitched our tents, cracked open some of our Paso wine (and beer for the boys) and snacked on our gourmet cheeses. We then headed to the on-site sushi bar (new addition to Treebones since we'd last been) and had a fabulous dinner. After dinner we enjoyed some more wine and played Apples to Apples at Karen & Mike's campsite
before calling it a night.
The next morning, Keeper snapped some pictures peering out of our tent...just gorgeous. We had breakfast at the lodge and then packed up our campsites, left some of our stuff to be transported to our yurts, and then headed up the road to Limekiln State Park for some light hiking. Keeper and I had been to this park 3 summers ago, but it was so pretty we wanted to come back. We did the hike to the kilns and then the hike to the waterfalls and then hiked down to the beach for awhile. We had our picnic lunch at the park and then drove north to Julia Pfieffer Burns State Park. This park has an AMAZING McWay Falls/Overlook trail with a waterfall that pours
onto the beach. It was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been in my life. We
ended up doing more sushi for dinner Friday night and then hung out in Mike and Karen's yurt for the evening, drinking wine and playing board games.
On Saturday, we had breakfast at the lodge again, then headed south to the Salmon Creek Trailhead to do some hardcore hiking. We headed up the Salmon Creek Trail with intentions of hiking to Estrella Camp and back for a total of 6.5 miles. The trail was very steep (the first mile completely uphill) with amazing views. Our friends were not that into the hike so we split up about a half mile through and Keeper and I continued on our own. We got to the first camp (Spruce Camp) which was 2 miles in, crossed the creek (on rocks), saw some waterfalls...and then noticed the trail got VERY steep with no vegetation...just rocks on a landslide area...and we decided no one needed to slide to their death on a dangerous trail...so we had lunch at Spruce Camp and headed back down the mountain. When we got back to the bottom, we scrambled down the boulders to meet up with our friends who were hanging out at Salmon Creek Falls. This was a really short trail and it was very crowded. We didn't get that close to the actual falls/swimming hole because there were loads of drunk teenagers crowding up the swimming hole....booo... We decided to head back to Treebones to enjoy the hot tub and take a nap.
Dinner turned out to be a pleasant surprise of a very reasonably priced BBQ (Keeper got the steak, I had freshly seared ahi tacos). We were also treated to a live blues duo outside of the lodge. We hung out and watched the hippies dance for a little while, then played some more games in the yurt and called it a night. We got up early the next morning and headed back to Phoenix. It was a great trip and we were sad to leave California.
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