| Photos
from a July 2000 hike at Fremont Older Open Space Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Trailhead |
 This less than welcoming sign warns about flying golf balls |
 Starting out |
 Coast live oak |
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 Cora Older Trail |
 Mountain-mahogany |
 Mountain-mahogany |
 Blue elderberry |
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 Cora Older Trail |
 Oaks on one side, grassland on the other |
 Approaching a junction |
 Junction |
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 Short climb |
 Junction with Seven Springs Trail |
 After a few steps through the grassland, trail enters shade |
 Another cercocarpus |
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 Seven Springs Trail |
 Olive tree |
 Under oaks |
 Path winds past buckeyes |
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 Creambush |
 This is either solomon's seal or false solomon's seal |
 Toyon and view |
 Pitcher sage |
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 Don't know what this is |
 Seven Springs Trail |
 Walnut tree |
 California sycamore |
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 Deer on trail |
 Switchback |
 Old orchard |
 Different walnut? |
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 Seven Springs Trail |
 Wild rose |
 Little more shade |
 Junction with Ranch Road |
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 Walnut |
 Back uphill |
 Plum tree |
 Still can't be sure what this tree is |
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 Mystery tree |
 Trail curves |
 Pines |
 Uphill |
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 Fruit bearing plum trees along here |
 Plums |
 Through chaparral |
 Chamise |
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 California sagebrush (left) next to chamise |
 Seven Springs Trail |
 Lots of yerba-santa lining the path |
 Hunter's Point visible |
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 Approaching junction |
 Junction |
 Seven Springs Trail |
 Edging along the hillside |
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 Junction with Ranch Road and path to Hunter's Point |
 Path to Hunter's Point |
 Uphill |
 View back |
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 View east |
 Near the junction with the trail to Regnart Road |
 Junction with trail to the ridge |
 Descending |
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 Creekside Trail junction |
 Creekside Trail |
 Common snowberry |
 Old stone stairs |
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 Creekside Trail |
 Bridge crosses creek |
 End of trail; junction with service road |
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