| Photos from an April
2001 hike at Mount Burdell Open Space Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Preserve gate |
 Stile |
 Path connects to San Andreas Fire Road, then meets San Marin Fire Road |
 San Andreas Fire Road |
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 Chinese houses |
 Junction |
 Johnnytuck |
 Carpet of johnnytuck, with some filaree and California buttercup |
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 San Andreas Fire Road |
 Shortcut trail |
 Through grassland |
 Junction |
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 Middle Burdell Fire Road |
 Junction |
 Popcorn flowers |
 Deer Camp Fire Road |
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 Graceful buckeye |
 Fiddlenecks |
 Spooky tree |
 Deer Camp Fire Road |
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 Buttercups on the side of the trail |
 Grade picks up |
 Steep |
 Huge old California bay |
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 Bluedicks |
 Flat stretch |
 View south |
 Trail loses a little elevation |
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 Approaching junction |
 Cobblestone Fire Road |
 Iris |
 Climbing |
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 Phacelia |
 View across to Old Quarry Trail |
 Shortcut trail breaks off on the right |
 Lots of pretty purple vetch on the side of the trail here in early spring |
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 Phacelia |
 Rocky |
 Final stretch |
 Junction |
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 Old Quarry Trail |
 Descent |
 Angling through grassland |
 View downhill |
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 Steep and rocky |
 Mule ear sunflowers |
 Poppies on a hillside |
 View south from the trail |
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 Wooded stretch |
 Junction |
 Flowers, grass, and buckeye |
 Approaching junction |
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 Back on Old Quarry Trail |
 Cattle gate |
 Approaching junction |
 Caterpillars on a signpost |
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 San Carlos Fire Road |
 Approaching junction |
 Michako Trail |
 Acorns in oak tree |
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 Michako Trail |
 Through grassland |
 Meadow foam |
 Approaching junction |
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 Drying grass on the sides of the trail |
 Creamcups |
 Shortcut on San Marin Fire Road |
 Owl's clover |
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 San Marin Fire Road |
 Split near the preserve entrance gate, and the end of the trail |
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