Date: March 1st, 2018
Location: San Pedro Valley 37.5779° N, 122.4757° W
Site description: San Pedro Valley Park is located by Pacifica. It contains seven trails, offering a variety of habitats. The park is 1,052 acres, with fresh-water creeks flowing through lush valleys. Among the streamside habitat, there are common plants such as the coast and giant trillium, buttercups, and wild mustard. There are also rarer plants such as giant golden chinaquapin, montara manzanita, and California.
Species description: The false Solomon’s seal, also known as maianthemum racemosum in the ruscaceae family, has flowers in a panicle inflorescence. The leaves are ovate to oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate, and have glabrous to fine hairs abaxially.
Narrative: It was pouring down rain on the morning of our trip to San Pedro Valley, and Professor Paul did not cancel the hike because “you are not hardcore until you live hardcore”. Therefore, I made sure to dress appropriately by wearing two pants, a hoodie, and a weather resistant hoodie on top. When we got to the location, the rain seemed to have cleared except for a good 5 minutes of harsh rain that made me give up on keeping my socks dry and clean. When we got back to the car to go back to campus, I took off the outer layer of my bottoms that was all muddied up, ate a couple handfuls of cheddar popcorn, and knocked out.