My boyfriend and I were on a hike in Point Reyes last year on an unusually bright and blazing January day. We were on a nine-mile loop that, as I’m learning is pretty typical for northern California, passed through a good handful of disparate biomes in a matter of miles. There was the rainforest that turned into an army of tall, straight pine trees that faded into desert-esque scrub brush that ultimately became rocky coastline.