10 miles south of Carmel, Garrapata State Park offers a strenuous 5 mile hike that can take about 4 hours to complete. Some parts of the trail are very steep with nothing to hold on to except loose mud!
Hiking with Inder all the way up
Stealing a moment on the way up, when nobody was around ;-)
Resting during the hike
Enjoying sandwiches and tea once we were on top of the mountains, a vertical distance of 2000 feet from where we started