Photos from a December
Hike on Mount Tamalpais/Rock Spring Trailhead (click on any image for a larger view) |
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![]() Parking lot at Rock Spring |
![]() Start of the trail |
![]() Junction; bear right |
![]() Junction; bear left |
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![]() Through the woods on Simmons Trail |
![]() Stay to the left at the far end of the bridge |
![]() Simmons Trail emerges into chaparral, dominated by chamise and ceanothus |
![]() Trail resembles a rain runoff channel carved into the rock |
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![]() Simmons Trail passes through serpentine rock |
![]() Vegetation shifts to manzanita |
![]() Manzanita |
![]() View north |
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![]() Short stretch of woods |
![]() Toyon |
![]() Transition |
![]() Approaching junction near Barth's Retreat |
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![]() The road out of Barth's Retreat is wide and lined with toyon and oaks |
![]() Junction with Laurel Dell Fire Road |
![]() Fire Road reveals great views north, sometimes all the way to Mt. St. Helena |
![]() Junction with path to Potrero Meadows; continue straight |
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![]() Junction with Benstein Trail |
![]() Benstein Trail |
![]() Trail is rocky and hard to follow in places |
![]() Benstein Trail |
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![]() Tanoak |
![]() Chinquapins |
![]() Dark woods; with little light, there's hardly any undergrowth |
![]() Junction with Rock Spring-Lagunitas Fire Road |
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![]() Benstein and Rock Spring-Lagunitas Fire Road run together briefly |
![]() Benstein departs on the right |
![]() California bay about to bloom |
![]() Benstein Trail |
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![]() Switchback |
![]() Bridge erected by TCC |
![]() Junction |
![]() Canyon live oak |
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![]() Pretty madrone |
![]() Small mammal bones on the side of the trail |
![]() Very rocky though here |
![]() End of the trail |
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