Photos
from a June 2000 hike at Picchetti Ranch (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Trailhead |
South from the parking lot |
Information signboard |
Winery |
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Start of the trail |
Picchetti Winery |
Bridge |
Blackberry |
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Walnut tree |
Zinfandel Trail |
Huge hedge of poison oak |
Zinfandel Trail |
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I think this a plum tree |
Junction with Orchard Loop Trail |
Pear tree |
Junction with Bear Meadow Trail |
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Quail in a tree |
Near the pond |
Young madrone |
Brief uphill |
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Pond |
Approaching junction with Orchard Loop Trail |
Start of the hiking only section of Zinfandel |
Zinfandel Trail |
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Wild rose |
About to enter shade |
View south |
Creambush |
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California bays |
Angling along the hillside |
Monkeyflower |
Sagebrush |
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Buckeye |
Toyon |
Chaparral |
Descending into woods |
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California bays |
Approaching bridge |
Hazelnut |
Honeysuckle |
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Uphill |
A few lingering paintbrush, and some dried out maidenhair fern |
Back into chaparral |
Holly-leaf cherry |
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Cercocarpus |
View to Stevens Creek Reservoir |
Approaching border with Stevens Creek County Park |
Turn around point |
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Blue elderberry |
Stevens Creek Reservoir visible |
Junction with Bear Meadow Trail |
Pitcher sage |
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Junction with Bear Meadow Trail |
Junction with path to Montebello Road |
Chamise |
Steep! |
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Junction with path to vista |
That awful quarry |
Descending |
Orchard Loop Trail |
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The winery's resident peacock |
Peacock |
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