Bay Area Hiker: Photos from Bon Tempe


Photos from a May 2001 hike on Mount Tamalpais (Bon Tempe Trailhead) (click on any image for a larger view)
Turkey on the side of the road	Trailhead	Start	Junction
Crossing spillway	Dam	View across the lake to Mount Tam's peaks	Alpine Lake
Junction	Junction	Alpine Lake	Rocky Ridge Fire Road
Wooded stretch	Climbing through mostly chaparral	Toyon	View back to the north
Azalea	View west	Mariposa tulip?	Ceanothus
View east	Grade levels out	Yerba santa	Signed as closed, this is the other segment of Stocking Trail
Approaching junction	Stocking Trail	Chamise, manzanita, and toyon line the beginning of the trail	Unless the water district trims the shrubs, tall hikers will be ducking their heads through here
Ceanothus	Bridge at Van Wyck Creek	Huckleberry is common in the understory	Stocking Trail
Giant chain ferns	Tanoak	Along the shore of Hidden Lake	Hidden Lake
Junction with Kent Trail	Kent Trail	Foul Pool	Near the East Fork of Swede George Creek, an area prone to landslides
Pipe along the trail	California nutmeg	Narrow stretch	Douglas fir, chinquapin, and manzanita crowd the trail
Skink	Alpine Lake	Kent Trail	Indian warrior
Kent Trail	Bridge along a rerouted stretch	Spotted coralroot	Bridge at Van Wyck Creek
Sunlight on the lake	Alpine Lake	Through grassland	False lupine along the trail
False lupine	Rocky	Kent Trail	Mariposa tulips

Sickleleaf onion	Last stretch of woods	Creambush	Kent Trail merges onto a gravel road, called Alpine Bon Tempe Fire Road in Tamalpais Trails
Junction	Returning across the dam		Go to Bay Area Hiker Bon Tempe page Go to Bay Area Hiker Home page