We decided to break in (or just break?) Tim's new Element with its first big trip. Loc, Tim, and I left on Thursday morning with intentions of beating traffic. Getting up at 5AM wasn't a problem for me since I never got down. 
I saved most of the sleeping for the ride up, and consequently throughout the trip. Unfortunately for us, people don't change. Even though we got up early with good intentions, we lagged anyway and hit traffic, which was great for me because I was sleeping the entire way anyway. 
We made BBQ Steak Stew, Spaghetti, Eggs, Hot Dogs, and Cheese Steak Sammiches during out 2 days and 2 nights there, hiked down to the "coast" where we caught two old people making out 
and drove 40 miles past Julia Pfeiffer and 40 miles back to Julie Pfeiffer Burns SP to see the nearly non-existent McWay Waterfall. Then again, what better way to top off a Brigade trip than perfect weather, no clouds, and no waterfalls?
Overall, the trip was a lot of fun though if you ignore the fact that we slept on some oddly shaped rock giving me back pains for days to come, the weird neck-ache I got from sleeping while Tim traversed the windy roads of the Big Sur, and the fact that night time was met with freezing temperatures since we weren't allowed to have a campfire due to dry vegetation. (Damn you global warming!)
(I would normally include more pictures in this post, but I haven't even looked at any of them yet. 
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Where's the fighting squirrels photo you and Tim drew