Adventure 220, Event 04 – Outdoor Stress Relief

Picnic at the Park

Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 220, Event 04 – Outdoor Stress Relief

Team: YOLT
Date:  August 23, 2013
Location: Woodward Park, Fresno

Description:
FACEBOOK FRIDAY is here! Show us your best outdoor activity for relieving stress after a busy, busy week. Get those endorphins pumpin'!



Team YOLT considers just being outdoors a stress relief. But life gets pretty good when the temperature here in Fresno gets to be only in the mid-90's during the day. Because in the evenings, we lower into the 80's. What a perfect time to grab a sandwich, head to the park and have a picnic. Then take a 40 minute walk to the San Joaquin River. Then about the time dusk settles in, go out to an ice cream parlor. Life is good!

Adventure: 220, Post 02 - Facebook Friday, Bag a Peak

Gary and Sherri on top of Buena Vista Peak

Capture California, the Game-2013

Adventure: 220, Post 02 - Facebook Friday, Bag a Peak

Team: YOLT

Date:  August 9, 2013

Location:  Buena Vista Peak, Kings Canyon

Description:

Today's Facebook Friday is to go out and bag a peak. There are several 1000'+ peaks around us. But they can be hot and pretty dry, plus during the summer they are rattlesnake habitat. So we decided to go a little high and climb a peak in Kings Canyon. 

The peak we chose was Buena Vista Peak. It is a 7,605' peak with a fairly short trail. One which is good for a sunset hike. That is what we did and we were not disappointed with the hike or the view-of course, what would you expect from a peak which is called Good View?

Well we have been up here several times. Once when it was pretty smoggy; another time when it was enveloped in a cloud-that was fun. But today with the smoke from fires, the sky was a nice pinkish red. Enjoyable.

Adventure 220, Post 01 – Flying the Flag

Sherri and our flag at the Fresno Veteran's Memorial where the US Flag flies high, along with flags from the services

Capture California, the Game-2013

Adventure: 220, Post 01 – Flying the Flag

Team: YOLT

Date:  June 14, 2013

Location: Fresno Veteran's Memorial

Description:
Flag day was first declared to be celebrated by Woodrow Wilson on June 14, 1916 to celebrate the Second Continental Congress's declaration about what constitutes the nation's flag on June 14, 1777. It was later established by Congress in 1949. Flag day was first suggested by George Morris in 1861. While not exactly unpopular, it took until the 1880's when Bernard J Cigrand started promoting the Fourteenth of June as the day to celebrate the nation's flag. The official place where the flag is celebrated is in Philadelphia at the Betsy Ross House. It should be celebrated by the raising of the flag, taking the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the National Anthem.