Biked, hiked, had a beer in the woods (Tourist Club)

As planned (and despite the Severe Weather Warning and 70% chance of thunderstorms), four of us gathered Sunday morning to get a coffee at Farley’s and bike the flat 19 miles from Potrero Hill to the bottom of the Dipsea Steps in Mill Valley:

Leaving bikes there, we met a larger group of friends who’d driven up, and hiked up the Dipsea Steps and along the beautiful exposed ridges of the Sun Trail:

This brought us to Maifest at the Tourist Club nestled in the woods (“In 1912, a group of German Nature Friends living in the San Francisco Bay area decided to buy land overlooking what is now Muir Woods. Their first American clubhouse was built in 1914. Members did all the work, pulling materials and supplies up the hillside by mule and manual labor.”), where we enjoyed some sausages, German beer, music, and dancing.

At one point the sky turned dark and ominous, and people edged indoors as a squall seemed imminent… but the rain never quite materialized, and the return hike and bike were smooth sailing as well (the Golden Gate Bridge was even unusually calm, wind-free, and empty of other cyclists– probably due to both the predicted rain and the distraction of Bay to Breakers).