Climbing Adventures at Green Valley Lake, CA

L-R: Samuel, Will and Luke enjoy the view.

San Bernandino National Forest is the land of big boulders.  And we climbed over and under and in between them this past weekend.  My friend Tamara invited Samuel and me down to their family cabin at Green Valley Lake for a weekend of board games, wood chopping, fishing, and boulder bounding.

Luke looks out toward Lake Arrowhead as the sun sets

Tamara finds a nook among the boulders.

Socked in at Lake Arrowhead

Steven is attending a retreat for M.D./Ph.D. students and Samuel and I went along  The event is at the UCLA Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead, about two hours northeast of San Diego.  The retreat was to have been in September, but the holiest day of the Jewish year got in the way.  It was rescheduled for a particularly cold day in October, with lots of rain, fog and some hard hitting hail. While Steven was providing wisdom on the dual M.D./Ph.D. career track, we worked our way over to the deserted dock at Lake Arrowhead.  I've heard it's a nice lake, but I couldn't see it (as evidenced by the picture above).

Nonetheless, the retreat is really that.  We're nestled in the woods here, with a wood burning fireplace in our "condolet" and outside it really is Fall.  Samuel and I collected some acorns and crunched through some fallen leaves.  We are enjoying the time away from the big city.