| Photos
from a September 2000 hike at Grant County Park (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Trailhead |
 Approaching start of the Hotel Trail |
 Walnut tree |
 Trail split |
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 Oak |
 Junction |
 Hotel Trail |
 Gate |
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 Crossing Mount Hamilton Road |
 Yerba Buena Trial |
 Junction with Lakeview Trail |
 Grant Lake |
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 Approaching junction |
 Brief downhill |
 Coast live oak |
 Junction with Canal Trail |
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 Junction with Los Huecos Trail |
 Halls Valley Trail |
 California coffeeberry |
 Common snowberries mixed throughout poison oak |
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 Coffeeberries |
 Uphill |
 California bay |
 Black oak |
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 Honeysuckle |
 About to cross creek |
 Seasonal creekbed |
 Little bit of chaparral |
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 Sagebrush |
 Oak grassland |
 Poison oak |
 Oaks |
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 Oak |
 Halls Valley Trail |
 Uphill |
 Ridge seems close, but you're not quite there yet |
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 North |
 Blue oak |
 Still not there |
 Looking back downhill |
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 Downhill! |
 California buckeye |
 Last ascent (on this trail) |
 Approaching junction |
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 Junction with Cañada de Pala Trail |
 Looking back, to the north |
 View of Grant Lake |
 Winding uphill |
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 Junction with Los Huecos Trail |
 Gate |
 Bare stretch |
 Tarweed? |
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 Yellow flowers and view west to the Santa Cruz Mountains |
 Mount Hamilton's Lick Observatory visible to the east |
 Cañada de Pala Trail |
 A windmill nestled among the flower covered hillside |
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 Yellow flowers mixed with blue flowers combine to create a greenish swale |
 Approaching junction with Yerba Buena Trail |
 Last view from the ridge |
 Starting downhill |
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 Angling alongside a canyon |
 Brief uphill |
 Steep downhill |
 View of Bass Lake, to the west |
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 Yerba Buena Trail |
 Approaching junction and Mount Hamilton Road |
 Yerba Buena Trail continues along the road |
 Yerba Buena Trail |
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 Rocks on one side of the trail, oaks on both sides |
 Trail dips, then climbs one more time |
 Approaching junction with Hotel Trail |
 Wild pigs taking a siesta in the shade |
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