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from a June 2002 hike at El Corte de Madera Open Space Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Parking lot at Skeggs Point |
 Walking on the side of Skyline Boulevard to get to the preserve |
 Entrance gate |
 Tafoni Trail |
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 Junction |
 Foxglove |
 El Corte de Madera Creek Trail |
 Down in the redwood canyon |
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 Trail veers left here |
 Bridge over El Corte de Madera Creek |
 Redwood ivy |
 El Corte de Madera Creek Trail |
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 Iris nestled in redwood branches |
 Redwoods along the trail |
 Junction with Tafoni Trail |
 El Corte de Madera Creek Trail |
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 Junction |
 Strawberry |
 Redwoods |
 Resolution Trail |
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 Bare rocky stretch |
 View south from a stretch through chaparral |
 Madrones along the trail |
 Arnica |
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 Pitcher sage |
 Madrone |
 Junction |
 Yerba buena |
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 Fir Trail |
 Junction |
 A calcochortus |
 Tafoni Trail |
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 Start of path to the tafoni |
 Descending through madrones |
 A fence channels hikers downhill |
 Approaching platform |
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 Platform and tafoni |
 Tafoni |
 Returning on Tafoni Trial |
 Tafoni Trail |
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 Junction, again |
 Back at the gate |
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