"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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Tracy - May 21, 2008 1:06 am Date Climbed: May 17, 2008
My 6th CA cohpMy 3rd cohp for the day. Summitted at 6:45 PM.
SFMountaineer - Mar 23, 2008 8:42 pm Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2008
CCHP #13Drove up today and did the quick technically illegal hike to Copernicus Peak. Uneventful, views were better from Lick observatory.
Brian Kalet - Feb 25, 2008 10:20 pm Date Climbed: Feb 23, 2008
From the roadDuring a storm at night.
weeds19 - Sep 8, 2007 5:47 pm Date Climbed: Jun 2, 2006
The road is the cruxThe long narrow drive up was the hardest part. I wished for my road bike!
keema - Jan 7, 2007 4:55 am Date Climbed: Feb 29, 2004
A quickieI was out driving around the hills and stopped at the observatories. Parked and jogged down the road and up to the fire lookout.
mlarkin2002 - Oct 19, 2006 11:03 pm Date Climbed: Jan 27, 2006
From the roadQuick dayhike to the summit from the nearby road. No views ; obscured by haze and mist.
surgent - Sep 13, 2006 3:21 pm
Easy hikePart of a few days in the Bay Area visiting my sister.
Chris Doig - Sep 4, 2006 6:50 am Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2006
fun with wife and sonWe ran up this one after visiting the observatory. Take the telescope tour, it is quite interesting. Found 2 geocaches too. We kept going to Livermore, 70 miles of twisty road fun. Nobody even puked in my car :-)
derbilly - Aug 17, 2006 2:39 pm Date Climbed: Mar 21, 2003
1st intentional CoHP tripThe observatory at the top of Mt Hamilton is interesting.
lingana - Jul 11, 2006 7:38 pm Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2006
Easy OneExpected it to be at least a bit of a climb, but realized that the drive up to the laboratory was much longer than the 20 minute hike (can't even be called a hike).
View from top was beautiful.
cjrandall - Jun 29, 2006 2:39 pm Date Climbed: Feb 2, 2002
Nice winter visitDrove up with my two daughters, a long drive up Mount Hamilton Road from San Jose. My wife was out of town, and brought the girls up with me since I was taking care of them for the weekend. Easy 20 minute hike from the roadside just past Mount Hamilton Observatory.
Stopped off on the way home for a chance to play in the snow alongside the road.
Matt Worster - Mar 27, 2006 9:54 pm Date Climbed: Jan 22, 2005
From the roadA sidetrip after going up Boardman and Boardman North.
ericnoel - Dec 29, 2005 11:08 pm
Route Climbed: West Side Date Climbed: June 15th 2005Took the quick walk up after driving over from I-5. Not much in the way of hiking options to be had but still worth visiting to me as this has a fire lookout, is a COHP and is also a 3000' prominence summit [towards the bottom end of the list of the top 400 contiguous US summits for P]. Observatory is worth visiting as well.
rgreene - Dec 28, 2005 9:03 pm
Route Climbed: Fire road Date Climbed: 24 Jan 2004Hiked up in mega overcast conditions after getting the "it's ok" from the Mt. Hamilton visitor's center (which probably counted for nothing!).
Bob Burd - Nov 22, 2005 1:00 am
Route Climbed: From the road Date Climbed: Jan 13, 2004A side trip on the way to Mt. Stakes. Trip Report
McCannster - Aug 27, 2005 12:01 am
Date Climbed: August 18, 2005Very quick bike ride from summit of Hamilton up to the highpoint of Santa Clara County.