Photos
from an April 2000 hike at Sunol Regional Wilderness (click on an image for a larger view) |
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Intrepretive Center |
Main parking lot |
Visitor Center; path to trails starts to the right of the building |
Path to trails |
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Bridge crosses creek |
Canyon View Trail |
Junction with Hayfield Road |
Water crossing |
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Junction with Indian Joe Trail |
Uphill |
View |
Mule ear sunflowers |
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Shrub-choked trail |
Lots of flowers here |
Wind poppy |
View uphill |
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Chinese Houses |
Junction with Canyon View Trail |
Toyon on trail |
Fairy lanterns |
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Along creek |
Spooky sycamore |
Butterflies are common in spring |
Blue witch nightshade |
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Winding through sagebrush and oaks |
Last bit of grassland for awhile |
Bluedicks |
Creek crossing |
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Rocky uphill stretch |
Indian Joe Trail |
Up, up, up |
Spur to Hayfield Trail |
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Through sagebrush |
Rocks! |
Near junction |
Junction with Cave Rocks Road |
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Cave Rocks Road |
Looking uphill to the north |
Popcorn flowers carpet the grass |
Popcorn flowers |
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Lone oak along trail |
Turtle |
Approaching High Valley Group Camp |
Cave Rocks Trail |
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Looking back, with Hayfield Trail heading to the right |
Scarlet pimpernel |
One giant eucalyptus tree near the junction |
Flag Hill Road |
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Start of the climb |
Looking toward Maguire Peaks |
Flag Hill Road |
Looking back |
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Rock outcrop |
Trail levels out |
Looking back |
Enjoying a flat stretch |
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Looking downhill |
Poppies and lupine |
View northwest |
Flag Hill |
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Rocks make a great rest bench... |
with a view |
More rocks |
Signpost at junction |
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Owl's clover |
Poppies dot the crease between hills |
Flag Hill Trail |
Trail and poppies |
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Steep descent |
Cattle gate |
Heal the Hill sign |
Through tall grass... |
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and tall flowers |
Skink |
Looking back |
More tall grass |
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Another gate at junction |
Looking back to arrow |
Downhill a little more |
Muddy |
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