Photos
from an April 2000 hike at San Bruno Mountain County Park (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Trailhead |
Trails begin at garden |
Blue-eyed grass |
Junction with other end of Summit Loop Trail |
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Crossing the road, part one |
Summit Loop Trail |
Suncups |
Elderberry tree |
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Nearing trees |
Edging along creek |
Spring flower sampler |
Trail, lined with flowers |
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Bush monkeyflower |
Trail |
Bindweed |
Cow parsnip |
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Crossing a tiny bridge |
Looking back through a thicket |
Fringecups |
Trail turns south |
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Lupine |
Scorpionweed |
Start of the climb |
Blue dicks |
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Looking back at a curve in the trail |
Through sagebrush |
Cinquefoil and checker-blooms |
Rest bench |
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Looking ahead to the summit |
Mount Tamalpais, less than 20 miles NNW |
Johnny-jump-up |
Oregon grape |
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Summit Loop Trail |
Goldenfields |
Looking all the way back downhill |
Not a junction |
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Twinberry |
Figwort |
Checker-bloom |
Summit Loop Trail |
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Poison oak |
Cotton batting plant |
Nighshade |
Crossing the road, part two |
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Past a rocky section |
Lupine |
Shortcut |
Near the summit |
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Irises |
Crossing the road, part three |
View north to the city |
Summit Loop Trail |
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Coast rock cress |
Approaching junction |
Descending east |
Ceanothus |
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Patch of goldenfield |
Looking south |
Bench with a high class view of downtown San Francisco |
Approaching junction |
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Junction |
Looking to the continuation of Summit Loop Trail |
Dairy Ravine Trail |
Descending |
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Blue dicks |
Another great view |
Seaside daisy |
Paintbrush and iris |
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View to Summit Loop Trail |
Near eucalyptus trees |
Scorpionweed |
Dairy Ravine Trail |
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Johnny jump-ups |
Junction with Eucalyptus Loop Trail |
Switchbacking downhill |
Many blue-eyed grass flowers |
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Approaching the trailhead |
Stonecrop? |
Blooming shrub |
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