Photos
from a June 2000 hike at Arastradero Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Trailhead |
Running along the road |
Crossing the road (watch out for those Porsches and Ferraris) |
Corte Madera Trail |
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A path breaks off to the left |
This clump of wild roses is spectacular in the fall |
Plum tree, I think |
Moth mullein |
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Elderberry tree |
Corte Madera Trail |
Common snowberries |
Cottontails in the trail |
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Crossing Corte Madera Creek |
Corte Madera Trail |
Clarkia |
You can hardly tell, but there's a plethora of clarkia in that there grass |
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Corte Madera Trail |
Bridge crossing |
Cattails screen the lake |
Barely visible path breaks off the right |
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The narrow path around the lake |
Lots of poison oak here |
A look at the lake |
Riparian section |
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Looking back |
Back on Corte Madera Trail |
Banana slug |
Dock |
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A rare ascent |
Near the old routing of the Acorn Trail |
A perfectly camouflaged baby gopher snake |
A white mariposa lily; looks like someone took a bite or two out of it |
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Acorn Trail |
Pitcher sage |
Acorn Trail |
Looking west |
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Heading downhill |
Pearly everlasting |
A view east |
Descending to junction |
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Signpost at junction |
Meadowlark Trail |
One lone dead oak juts up in the grassland |
A few green patches persist among the dry grass |
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A look back uphill |
Approaching junction with Corte Madera Trail |
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