Photos
from a September 2000 hike at Grant County Park (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Trailhead |
Approaching start of the Hotel Trail |
Walnut tree |
Trail split |
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Oak |
Junction |
Hotel Trail |
Gate |
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Crossing Mount Hamilton Road |
Yerba Buena Trial |
Junction with Lakeview Trail |
Grant Lake |
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Approaching junction |
Brief downhill |
Coast live oak |
Junction with Canal Trail |
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Junction with Los Huecos Trail |
Halls Valley Trail |
California coffeeberry |
Common snowberries mixed throughout poison oak |
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Coffeeberries |
Uphill |
California bay |
Black oak |
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Honeysuckle |
About to cross creek |
Seasonal creekbed |
Little bit of chaparral |
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Sagebrush |
Oak grassland |
Poison oak |
Oaks |
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Oak |
Halls Valley Trail |
Uphill |
Ridge seems close, but you're not quite there yet |
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North |
Blue oak |
Still not there |
Looking back downhill |
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Downhill! |
California buckeye |
Last ascent (on this trail) |
Approaching junction |
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Junction with Cañada de Pala Trail |
Looking back, to the north |
View of Grant Lake |
Winding uphill |
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Junction with Los Huecos Trail |
Gate |
Bare stretch |
Tarweed? |
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Yellow flowers and view west to the Santa Cruz Mountains |
Mount Hamilton's Lick Observatory visible to the east |
Cañada de Pala Trail |
A windmill nestled among the flower covered hillside |
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Yellow flowers mixed with blue flowers combine to create a greenish swale |
Approaching junction with Yerba Buena Trail |
Last view from the ridge |
Starting downhill |
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Angling alongside a canyon |
Brief uphill |
Steep downhill |
View of Bass Lake, to the west |
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Yerba Buena Trail |
Approaching junction and Mount Hamilton Road |
Yerba Buena Trail continues along the road |
Yerba Buena Trail |
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Rocks on one side of the trail, oaks on both sides |
Trail dips, then climbs one more time |
Approaching junction with Hotel Trail |
Wild pigs taking a siesta in the shade |
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