Pictures from a 7 days trip with friends. I had a great time to share the beauty of the country with them. We started our journey in San Francisco, then we flew to Vegas for a couple of days and came back by car via the windy Death Valley and the snowed Yosemite park. The highlight of the trip was the helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon, it was pretty cool to flew over the strip in Vegas and in the canyon, there is no word to describe the sensation, you got to do it for yourself :-)

Clear sky pictures from the 17 miles scenic road through Pacific Grove going from Monterey to Carmel-by-See. An exclusive road mixing of beach, golf green, cliffs, trees and luxury houses, a must seen place in California.

I did my first race ever there (5K / 22min and 40s) with the Dolphin South End Runners, running in a such beautiful place is very inspiriting, I love it.

                       

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Photos from Rancho del Oso (a part of Big Basin Redwoods State Park), the park entrance is located just in front of Waddell Beach (the world famous spot for kiteboarding) and there are many trails starting from there. The sky was cloudy but we had a great time and we highly recommend this place for hiking, especially if you like Banana slug and cute lezard, but be careful to Poison-Oak plant :-)

Winter pictures of Yosemite falls, Half-Dome and the Yosemite valley.

Photos from the Mount Tamalpais on the North of San-Francisco after crossed the Golden Gate bridge. Pretty nice views of the SF skyline, the pacific and the Farallon Islands.

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I took this iPhone picture from my office in San Jose on December 8th morning after a rare snowfall on Mission Peak. No chance to touch it, the snow melted before noon...