Girls Gone Hiking

              Today's Happy Feet post is about a new group  called "Girls Gone Hiking", a friend of mine decided to start this group recently and the group is about three girls who are finding all the best urban hikes to hike in San Francisco!! So how it all began, well  a few days ago my friend Emily and I were sitting at this beautiful seafood restaurant overlooking the lovely Sausalito harbor, and as we were sitting there eating our delicious side salads (that being all we could afford there since we are poor grad students) we decided its time to get out and enjoy the beauty around us, so we decided to plan a hike for the next day off!

             Well on our first hike Emily and I realized we were seriously out of shape (thats what grad school can do to ya) and Emily didn't even own any workout gear.  So we quickly realized that we wanted to make this a routine thing, because after our little hikes we felt so alive (we were really living now!!). We had another friend Melissa join up with us and well shortly into our first hike with Melissa we realized that she is definitely a trail blazer Emily and I could barely keep up with her! So she quickly joined our hiking ventures as the main motivator of our group!

       It was when we were hiking this 9 mile hike (don't worry we got Emily some real shoes) in Point Reyes National Park that Melissa came up with this hilarious and wonderful idea to start a group a hiking group where we could remain motivated by posting all of our best hikes while also giving recommendations. Each of us has a role in the group, Emily recommending a first time to working out view point (you know what equipment to buy for those who don't even own tennis shoes), Melissa the brain and motivator (how to push two very lazy and girls on the trail), and me the day dreamer, observer (what kind of things you can find if you stop and smell the roses, mostly consists of me taking pics of flowers and animals). So we came up with the name Girls Gone Hiking (instead of girls gone wild), and Melissa immediately made this facebook group! so check us out! And post any recommendations on our page.