Muir Woods Adventure In Northern California

The Muir Woods National Monument is just 12 miles north San Francisco and features the giant ‘old growth’ Redwood trees that make travel in Northern California so spectacular. It was an area of land rescued from the logging and deforestation that occurred in the late 1800s. Purchased by William Kent in an attempt to preserve it, the land was later gifted to the federal government to avoid local attempts at destroying it. When President Theodore Roosevelt declared it a National Monument in 1908, William Kent insisted it be named after John Muir, a Naturalist who made an great impact on the development of the National Park Service.

A special THANK YOU to everyone mentioned above for saving this amazing forest!

I met up with Darren Kitchen from YouTube’s premier hacker channel – Hak5 – for a venture into this Northern California forest of redwoods. As an area local, he had a few places to show me in the north bay area, including Sausalito, Mount Tamalpais and eventually the hidden hippie town of Bolis- possibly to be released in a future video.

Darren Kitchen and Alicia Webb exploring Muir Woods National Monument

It was a ton of fun to hang out with a fellow photographer/ videographer/ tech/ AND nature enthusiast. He took lots of killer photos of me which were swiftly added to my Instagram..

Dear San Francisco rain, I accept you 💧For you are what makes the forest green and the moss damp and magical. You also made my hair suuuuper curly all weekend so that was pretty cool 😘 🌲

A photo posted by Alicia Mae Webb 🕶 Travel Vlog (@amaetv) on Mar 7, 2016 at 4:38pm PST

And I found great opportunities to take some for his!

Thanks to @amaetv for capturing shot, making me feel all John Marston like. Reminds me of my favorite quote of his: Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain’t nothing fair. You know that.

A photo posted by Darren (@hak5darren) on Mar 6, 2016 at 10:16pm PST