Lone Pine Mountain Hike with Jeff Falcone

A buddy of mine from the Academy - Jeff Falcone (and his wife Christina) - is stationed out at Vandenberg. So, of course, we definitely had to hang a couple of times while I was out in Cali.

Both of us are big into the outdoors, so we took a hike - Lone Pine Mountain.




Those purple flowers - they're called mountain lupine. Possibly the best flowery aroma ever. And yes, I'm still a man...

Unfortunately, we never made the top. I guess there had been a recent fire, and the trail was lost in a jumble of scrub oak. We weren't too into trailblazing through that, so we called a hundred yards away good enough.

All in all, quite a good day.