| Photos from a May
2000 hike at Muir Beach Trailhead (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Trailhead |
 Information board, with latest wildlife sightings reported |
 Gate at start of trail |
 Bridge |
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 A few feet of loose sand (it is the beach, after all) |
 Junction; bear right |
 Junction with Green Gulch Trail |
 Green Gulch Trail |
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 Diaz Ridge in the distance |
 Yellow monkeyflower |
 Green Gulch Trail |
 Lupine |
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 Ithuriel's Spear |
 Yarrow |
 Thimbleberries |
 Junction with spur; bear left |
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 Along a horse pasture |
 Dock |
 Cutting through Green Gulch Farm |
 Junction with Middle Green Gulch Trail |
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 On the pavement |
 Junction with the trail again |
 Junction; bear left |
 Starting uphill |
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 Monkeyflower and sagebrush |
 Curve just before the watertank |
 Leaving the trees behind |
 Cow parsnip (foreground) & poison hemlock background) |
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 Paintbrush |
 Bindweed and a few monkeyflowers |
 Twinberry bush |
 Ceanothus |
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 Mt. Tam and Shoreline Highway |
 Looking back to the ocean |
 Columbine |
 Nature gets the last laugh |
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 Birdsfoot lotus |
 View back down to Green Gulch |
 Hope Cottage, perched on a bluff |
 Looking back |
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 Sunflowers |
 Tam |
 Hope Cottage |
 Almost to the top |
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 Some wild buckwheat |
 Junction |
 Tennessee Valley, with the bridge and city in the background |
 Coyote Ridge Trail |
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 East; Mount Diablo is barely visible |
 Junction with Middle Green Gulch Trail |
 Another nice view of Tam |
 Coastal Fire Road, heading south |
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 Coastal Fire Road, north |
 Descending |
 Quaking grass |
 Coastal Fire Road |
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 Through thistles |
 View to the coastline |
 Blue-eyed grass |
 Dropping to Muir Beach |
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 Pirate's Cove Trail (although it's signed Coastal Trail) |
 Quail sitting on coyote brush |
 Muir Beach visible |
 Green Gulch |
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 Pink flower |
 Approaching junction |
 Poison hemlock |
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