Palomar Mountain

A couple weekends ago, I ventured to Palomar Mountain to see what it was. I had heard about it through coworkers. It's about 40 miles Northeast of where I live. Its a pretty winding drive to get to the top. There is an observatory, but it's not as cool as the Griffith Observatory. In fact, there is really no distant great view from the top of the mountain. Note the really sunny skies in the first few pics from the top of the mountain.




















I only hung around the observatory for about 20 minutes and then I started to drive back down the mountain to head home. Out of nowhere a storm moved in. It happened super fast. You would have thought I could have seen it coming being on top of a mountain, but it just appeared. Just 5 minutes of driving down the mountain the sky went dark. It was so weird.

I stopped at a casino at the bottom of the mountain to take these pics. These were taken less than a half hour after I took the observatory pics.


I think the cloud in this pic is covering the top of Palomar Mountain.







Hopefully I will go back to the mountain sometime when it is nice out because there were some really cool views from the drive up. Much better views than from the top of the mountain.