| Photos
from a March 2001 hike at Black Diamond Regional Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Parking lot |
 Trailhead |
 Stewartville Trail |
 Beginning to climb |
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 Owl's clover |
 Fiddlenecks |
 Climbing through grassland |
 Ithuriel's spear |
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 Approaching junction |
 Ridge Trail |
 Fiddlenecks |
 Ridge Trail |
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 Lupine |
 Buckeye |
 Padre's shooting stars, bleached in the sun and on their last legs |
 Ridge Trail |
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 Buckeye |
 Ridge Trail |
 Woodland star |
 Flower growing out of rocky soil |
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 Starting to climb |
 View north |
 Bluedicks |
 Ridge Trail |
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 Manzanita |
 Royal larkspur |
 Coulter pines |
 View north from hilltop |
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 View down into valley |
 View to Diablo |
 Paintbrush |
 Yerba santa |
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 Descending |
 Indian warrior |
 Bush poppy |
 Ridge Trail |
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 View north |
 Junction |
 Chaparral Loop Trail |
 Descending toward rock formation |
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 Chamise |
 Junction |
 Lower Chaparral Trail |
 Unknown plant |
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 Rocky descent |
 Lower Chaparral Trail |
 Branched phacelia |
 Hairy fringepod amid spring flowers |
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 View |
 Junction |
 Woodland star |
 Chaparral Loop Trail |
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 Junction |
 Blooming buckbrush |
 Junction |
 Manhattan Canyon Trail |
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 View across canyon |
 Junction |
 Rocky path |
 Black sage |
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 Shooting stars |
 View across canyon |
 Approaching junction |
 Fremont's camas |
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 Buckbrush |
 Junction |
 Black Diamond Trail |
 Sagebrush |
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 Climbing out of chaparral |
 Cattle gate |
 View across to Rose Hill Cemetery |
 Bluedicks in grassland |
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 Black Diamond Trail |
 Shooting stars |
 Descending |
 Redmaids |
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 Junction |
 View |
 Nortonville Trail |
 Descent |
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 Approaching junction |
 Cattle gate |
 Owl's clover |
 Junction |
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 Nortonville Trail |
 Junction |
 New blue oak leaves |
 Approaching junction |
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 Returning to trailhead |
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