What is it??

On Thanksgiving I was at my mom's house in San Diego and it was around dusk when i finally went to get my stuff out of the truck to stay the night. When my sister and i were coming back in we saw this big spider. We thought at first it was a small tarantula, but when we caught it and brought it up to show my mom she shinned the light on it and told us it wasn't a tarantula because as we could clearly see in the light it wasn't hairy like a tarantula. So we took some pictures of it and let it go far away from the house. Well since i love looking at spiders and knowing what I'm looking at i went on a search online to find out exactly what we were dealing with. It took me a while but i finally found a picture that matched our spider exactly. Our mystery spider ended up being a male California trapdoor spider. Which makes since for us never really seeing one before because they rarely leave there underground burrows. The males only come out in the fall to find a mate.