Photos
from an April 2001 hike at Muddy Hollow, Point Reyes (click on any image for a larger view) |
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Trailhead |
Salmonberries at the trailhead |
Starting out on Muddy Hollow Road |
Creek crossing |
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Junction |
Ceanothus |
Cypress |
Bishop Pine |
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Muddy Hollow Road |
The gravel road to the trailhead is visible as you look back |
Tree burned in the 1995 Mount Vision fire |
Gentle ascent |
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One of three small connecting ponds that are visible to the south |
Exposed rocks to the north |
Junction |
Trail descends, passes over Glenbrook Creek, and then ascends |
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View south |
Junction |
Glenbrook Trail |
Lots of iris on the side of the trail |
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Clover |
Pussy ears |
View back to Muddy Hollow Road |
Feather |
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Glenbrook Trail |
Junction |
View to Limantour Spit |
Estero Trail |
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View south |
Trail heads north |
Pussy ears |
Tule elk |
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Trail is lumpy here |
Bridge |
Thimbleberry |
Glenbrook Creek, on its way to the estero |
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Through alders |
Salmonberry |
Towering cow parsnip |
Back into grassland |
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Estero Trail |
Seaside birdsfoot trefoil |
View back to the north |
Checker-bloom |
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Coyote brush lines the trail |
Descending |
View to the ocean |
Descending |
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Poison oak |
Twinberry |
Rutted trail |
South |
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Junction |
Daunting sign |
Muddy Hollow Trail |
Muddy Hollow Trail |
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Seep monkeyflower |
Getting damper every step of the way |
New trail segment |
Old trail segment, under water as promised |
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Almost to the end of the new segment |
Confusing stretch |
Back on the trail |
A look back to the reroute |
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Muddy |
Alder |
Returning to dry ground |
More salmonberries |
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Near a little shack, the trail turns into a road |
Twinberry |
Salmonberry |
Returning to the trailhead |
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Candyflower |
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