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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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