Day 1: "The Big Parade" on Corralitas

Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 18, 2009. The Big Parade on the Corralitas Staircase - 133 steps up. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

"The Big Parade" made their way down Fellowship Parkway Stairs, to the Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract: up the Landa Staircase, where resident Cindy O. provided welcome refreshments to the more than 60 hikers in the midday heat.

The hardy group continued down the