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from a March 2000 hike at Las Trampas Regional Wilderness (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 At the edge of the parking lot |
 Crossing through a cattle gate |
 Across the valley |
 One of many damp creek crossings in the winter and spring |
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 Near the Corral Camp |
 Junction, just before Elderberry Trail heads uphill |
 Uphill along the creek |
 Climbing... |
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 Trails splits around a soggy spot |
 Looking to the ridge across the valley |
 Looking uphill |
 Heading south |
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 Looking back |
 Landslide |
 Muddy stretch |
 Gooseberry flowers |
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 Just before a creek |
 Maple buds |
 A closed spur |
 Eroded hillside |
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 South |
 Elderberry Trail |
 A flowering fruit tree |
 A disheartening downhill |
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 Another "closed" side trail |
 Unusual flat stretch |
 Chaparral covered hills to the west |
 California bay grove |
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 Waterfall |
 The final push to the ridge |
 Looking back, and ahead |
 Mount Diablo behind the west ridge |
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 Cows guarding the path to the belvedere |
 More climbing! |
 East Bay M.U.D. land to the east |
 Redmaids |
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 Upper Trail |
 Shells embedded in the rock |
 Looking back along the ridge |
 Mount Diablo |
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 East, with a portion of the Devil's Hole Trail visible |
 Looking toward Devil's Hole |
 Junction with Devil's Hole Trail |
 Upper Trail |
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 Junction with Cuesta Trail |
 Cuesta Trail |
 Heading downhill |
 Across the hillside |
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 Other end of closed spur |
 A climb |
 Looking ahead to the north |
 Trail, with west ridge in the distance |
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 Cow and trail |
 Junction with Rocky Ridge Trail and Road |
 Looking downhill |
 Junction |
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 Pounding the pavement on Rocky Ridge Road |
 Returning to the trailhead |
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