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Viewing Vision's Vistas in Inverness, California
Atop Mount Vision, I am, as always, delighted by how much this place lives up to its name. To the south, I can make out Mount Tam, silhouetted against the colors of morning. Descending from the summit, other visions reveal themselves through large openings in the trees, and it is almost too much to take in—the hills covered in bishop pine giving way to a coastal scrub of ceanothus and coyote bush, wildflowers dotting the open spaces that descend into the long fingers of Drake's Estero, which spears into the valleys and dells of the park, the Point dipping into the Pacific Ocean. Another hundred yards down the trail leading back to my car, I see gently curving hills giving way to the grace of Tomales Bay, with a distant Mount Helena hovering beyond. Occasional skeletons of past fires reach their fingers into the sky as I see the gentle curves of Three Sisters tumbling into Elephant Mountain, looming over Point Reyes Station, and completing the circuit.
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