| Photos
from an August 2000 hike at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Trailhead |
 Trailhead |
 Start of White Oak Trail |
 Along Page Mill Road |
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 Turning away from Page Mill Road |
 Snake trail |
 South |
 White Oak Trail |
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 View all the way to Russian Ridge |
 Junction |
 White Oak Trail continues to the south |
 Madrone |
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 Dip downhill |
 South |
 A white oak |
 Oaks stand back from the trail |
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 Valley oak? |
 Skid Road Trail is visible |
 Black Mountain across the valley |
 Sweeping downhill |
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 Another oak |
 Canyon live oak |
 White Oak Trail winds into the canyon |
 Into the woods |
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 Lovely woods |
 Bridge |
 Creambush |
 Lots of bug here! |
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 Approaching junction |
 Junction |
 Downhill |
 Tanoak |
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 Shaded |
 Junction with Stevens Creek Trail |
 Currant |
 Thimbleberry |
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 Downhill |
 Big leaf maple |
 Slide area |
 Last bridge |
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 Uphill |
 Blue elderberry |
 Steep drop to the right |
 Douglas fir |
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 Climbing |
 Gate |
 Interior live oak? |
 Oregon oak? |
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 Junction with Canyon Trail |
 Wild rose |
 Nettles |
 Steep section |
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 Another oak |
 Leaving the trees |
 California bay |
 Bench is just off the path to the left |
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 Bench and view |
 Canyon Trail just before junction with Bella Vista Trail |
 Buckeye |
 Canyon Trail |
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 Sag pond in transition |
 Path |
 Junction |
 Old walnut tree |
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 Walnut |
 Leaving the orchard |
 Meeting a unsanctioned path |
 Climbing through the grassland |
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 Large scat, could be from a large coyote, bobcat, or mountain lion |
 Junction |
 Scat from a fruit-eater, probably a coyote or fox |
 View south from the stone bench |
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 Returning to the traihead |
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