| Photos from a June
2000 hike at Los Trancos Open Space Preserve (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Trailhead |
 Start of San Andreas Fault Trail |
 Overgrown path |
 Brodiaea |
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 Looking south |
 Sag pond |
 Passing through chaparral |
 Bench with view north to Mount Tam and SF |
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 Gooseberry |
 Fault Trail |
 Larkspur |
 Clarkia |
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 Junction with Franciscan Loop Trail |
 Yellow mariposa lily |
 Narrow portion |
 Brodiaea |
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 Creambush |
 Approaching the 1906 fault area |
 Junction |
 Fault Trail |
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 Fault Trail |
 Little root basin |
 Wood rose with new hips forming |
 Hazelnut |
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 Fairy lantern |
 Fault Trail |
 Huge old tree |
 Junction |
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 Descending through some grassland |
 Clarkia |
 Franciscan Loop Trail |
 Baneberry |
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 Volunteer-built causeway |
 Butterfly on blackberry shrub |
 Elderberry |
 Poison hemlock |
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 Honeysuckle |
 California coffeeberry |
 Junction with spur to Page Mill Trail |
 Shade |
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 Trail cuts through a dramatic rock reef |
 Cool woods |
 Hazelnut with a nut! |
 Junction |
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 Causeway over damp spot |
 Currants |
 Pitcher sage |
 Approaching junction |
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 Junction with Page Mill Trail |
 Seep monkeyflower |
 Thimbleberry |
 Baneberry |
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 Near Los Trancos Creek |
 Easy ascent |
 Spotted coralroot |
 More spotted coralroot |
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 Young madrone tree |
 Big-leaf maple |
 A few Douglas firs |
 Hazelnut |
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 Gaining back elevation |
 Steep section |
 Leaving the woods behind |
 Fairy lanterns |
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 Edging past grass |
 Approaching junction with Fault Trail |
 Returning to trailhead |
 I think this is largeflower linathus |
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 Shabby looking owl's clover |
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