Photos
from an April 2000 hike at Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Trailhead |
Conifer Fire Road |
Looking back, just past the water tank |
Spotted coralroot |
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Uphill |
Emerging into grassland |
Uphill |
Through a rutted section |
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Looking back, to Loma Alta |
Blue-eyed grass |
Side path cuts right here |
Fiddlenecks |
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Checker-bloom and manroot blossoms |
Creamcups |
Side path |
Checker-bloom |
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View north from crest |
Looking ahead to junction |
Looking east to White's Hill |
California buttercups and rocky outcrop |
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Junction |
Looking back |
Approaching junction with San Geronimo Ridge Fire Road |
Serpentine outcrop and yellow patch of flowers |
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Leaving grassland |
Indian paintbrush among the rocks |
San Geronimo Ridge Fire Road |
Heading west |
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Not a junction |
Sargent cypress |
View south |
Start of the descent |
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Green Hill |
Irises |
I think this is some kind of mariposa tulip |
Downhill |
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Zigadene |
Manzanita blossoms |
Junction |
Pine Mountain Fire Road departs to the south |
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Steepest climb of the hike |
View down to Kent Lake |
Looking back |
Goldenfields |
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Mission bells |
Returning to the junction with Conifer Fire Road |
The wildest flower of the spring, which I can't identify |
Lizard |
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Strawberry |
Forget-me-nots |
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