| 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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