Photos
from an October 2000 hike on Fire Interpretive Trail (renamed in 2009 to
Mary Bowerman Interpretive Trail), Mount Diablo State Park (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Trailhead |
Oak |
Post 2: Poison oak |
Fire Interpretive Trail |
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View to Lone Star Quarry |
Creambush |
Post 3: Greenstone |
Canyon Live Oak |
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Fire Interpretive Trail |
Post 4: Greywacke |
Post 5: Chert |
Platform, with benches and a great view |
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Post 6: chert, greywacke, and shale |
Pine |
End of the paved part of the trail; view to the North Peak |
Continuation of Fire Interpretive Trail |
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North Peak |
Ceanothus |
Leaving chaparral |
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Rock |
Devil's Pulpit |
Trail and view of summit |
View downhill |
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Post 10: tiny flowers blooming in the dry grass, even in October |
Fire Interpretive Trail |
Fuchsia blooming on the rock |
Post 11: Rock |
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Edging along the hillside |
View downhill |
Close up view of juniper |
Juniper |
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View back to Devil's Pulpit |
Chamise |
Canyon Live Oak |
Chamise |
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Yerba santa |
Returning to the trailhead |
Last stretch of trail |
Poison oak |
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Blue elderberry |
California bay |
Tarantula |
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