We Climbed Candlestick Hill

On June 16, 2025, I wrote that my friend showed up with sandwiches before we went to the old quarry on Geneva Avenue to look at turbidites, which are fine-grained “anomalous” geologic deposits, most often shales, of turbidity currents. After that we drove over to Bayshore Park to look at the outcrops from the Franciscan Complex which makes up most of the geology of the Bay Area.

Later we climbed Candlestick Hill and I tried to figure out the specific materials of the rock. I found stuff which might be described as metabasite but there was a lot of serpentine as well. We looked at the tank on top and looked at the radio tower before returning to the bottom.

We went to the brewery nearby for a beer. The board games there were not enough so we continued to discuss geology. Later we returned to the Mission for a drink and a slice of pizza. We also ended up watching the movie Paprika.

This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.