Photos
from a March 2001 hike at Black Diamond Regional Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Parking lot |
Trailhead |
Stewartville Trail |
Beginning to climb |
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Owl's clover |
Fiddlenecks |
Climbing through grassland |
Ithuriel's spear |
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Approaching junction |
Ridge Trail |
Fiddlenecks |
Ridge Trail |
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Lupine |
Buckeye |
Padre's shooting stars, bleached in the sun and on their last legs |
Ridge Trail |
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Buckeye |
Ridge Trail |
Woodland star |
Flower growing out of rocky soil |
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Starting to climb |
View north |
Bluedicks |
Ridge Trail |
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Manzanita |
Royal larkspur |
Coulter pines |
View north from hilltop |
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View down into valley |
View to Diablo |
Paintbrush |
Yerba santa |
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Descending |
Indian warrior |
Bush poppy |
Ridge Trail |
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View north |
Junction |
Chaparral Loop Trail |
Descending toward rock formation |
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Chamise |
Junction |
Lower Chaparral Trail |
Unknown plant |
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Rocky descent |
Lower Chaparral Trail |
Branched phacelia |
Hairy fringepod amid spring flowers |
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View |
Junction |
Woodland star |
Chaparral Loop Trail |
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Junction |
Blooming buckbrush |
Junction |
Manhattan Canyon Trail |
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View across canyon |
Junction |
Rocky path |
Black sage |
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Shooting stars |
View across canyon |
Approaching junction |
Fremont's camas |
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Buckbrush |
Junction |
Black Diamond Trail |
Sagebrush |
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Climbing out of chaparral |
Cattle gate |
View across to Rose Hill Cemetery |
Bluedicks in grassland |
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Black Diamond Trail |
Shooting stars |
Descending |
Redmaids |
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Junction |
View |
Nortonville Trail |
Descent |
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Approaching junction |
Cattle gate |
Owl's clover |
Junction |
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Nortonville Trail |
Junction |
New blue oak leaves |
Approaching junction |
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Returning to trailhead |
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