Not sure if I would want to join that club these days without the roof...But I am sure that at one time it was quite nice. Alcatraz was not only home to prisoners. The families of the guards also lived on the island and their children took the ferry to and from the mainland for school each day.
I don't think I had ever been on a hike quite like this one. As we went up in elevation we would come to these large open basin areas with tall peaks on all sides. It was an amazing sight to see.