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The Highest Place by Teeth Beetles

January 9th, 2009 5:49 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Go to the highest point of anything.

I live in San Francisco, and until I signed up for this task, I was completely unaware of what the highest point in the entire city of San Francisco was.

Much to my surprise, it is Mount Davidson, the big mountain I live at the foot of, at 925 feet.

I decided to trek from the Pacific Ocean at Ocean Beach to to summit of Mount Davidson.

It is grueling...

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Vicente and the Great Highway

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The Tsunami Evac site near an elementary school

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According to the sign, I am now somewhere in the Marin Headlands.

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Mt. Davidson off in the distance...

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Frightening...

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I was sort of lost here...

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But finally, success.

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This giant freaking cross used to be owned by the city, but then was later sold off to some Armenian heritage group, and re-Christened as a memorial to the Armenian Genocide. There was a plaque commemorating the genocide, but it went missing. Another plaque was placed on the structure earlier last year. I think the original plaque was originally on the cross itself, but the new plaque is on a platform at the base. Didn't go up to it; too muddy. Besides, I felt I was going to get jumped because of all the brush around.

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