Bay Area Hiker: Photos from Arastradero Preserve


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