| Photos from an April
2001 hike at Diablo Foothills Regional Park (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Trailhead |
 After crossing Livorna Road, turn right on Serafix and look for the trail on the left |
 Houses on both sides |
 A few side paths feed into the trail near the houses |
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 Split; stay to the right |
 Another neighborhood entrance |
 Overgrown |
 Through oaks |
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 Buckeye |
 Gate |
 Trail curves left |
 Climbing |
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 Clarkia |
 Blue oak |
 Alamo Trail |
 Ithuriel's spear |
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 Valley oak |
 At junction with Hanging Valley Trail |
 Gate |
 View to Diablo from Alamo Trail |
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 Junction |
 Briones to Mount Diablo Trail |
 Mount Diablo State Park gate |
 Junction |
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 Ithuriel's spear in the grass |
 Owl's clover |
 Path to China Wall |
 China Wall |
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 China Wall |
 Turn around point |
 Diablo view |
 Castle Rocks are barely visible |
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 Back on Briones to Mount Diablo Trail, heading back into Diablo Foothills |
 Valley oak |
 Fiddlenecks |
 Briones to Mount Diablo Trail |
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 Descending |
 Patches of purple vetch |
 Briones to Mount Diablo Trail |
 Flowering tree |
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 Shortcut trail heads left |
 Bird |
 Junction |
 Stonegate Trail |
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 Split; actual junction is a few feet further |
 Junction |
 Approaching junction |
 Can you find the trail here? It's a not-visible path to the right and downhill |
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 Descending |
 Approaching gate and junction |
 Steep |
 View |
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 Junction |
 Owl's clover |
 Foothills Trail |
 Approaching junction |
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 Trail dips to a pond |
 Clover in the grass |
 Gate |
 Returning through edge of residential neighborhood |
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