| Photos
from a May 2002 hike at Skywalker Easement (click on any image for a larger view) |
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 Trailhead on the side of Lucas Valley Road, at Big Rock |
 The entrance is a double stile |
 Flowers near the trailhead |
 Tarweed? |
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 Another shot of the flowers |
 Creamsacs |
 Ascending through serpentine rock |
 Blue field gilia |
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 Douglas' sandwort |
 Another unknown |
 The steady ascent |
 A nearly level stretch |
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 Junction with a private fire road |
 Honeysuckle twining through poison oak |
 Linanthus |
 Linanthus |
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 A few coast live oak and California bay line the trail |
 Along the ridge |
 Gate |
 View |
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 Junction with a private fire road |
 View |
 Heading to the top |
 View to Lucas Valley Open Space Preserve's steep Luiz Fire Road |
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 View to Mount Tam, near a junction with a private fire road |
 At the top of Loma Alta, looking (and heading) south |
 Descending |
 Blue flax coloring the hillside of this gulch light blue |
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 Vulture |
 View downhill to the south, to a Loma Alta trail |
 Curving downhill |
 End of the easement |
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 Loma Alta Open Space Preserve gate |
 Returning uphill |
 This climb seems a lot further on the return |
 Returning, with Big Rock Ridge in the distance |
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 Descending |
 Butterfly |
 Returning |
 Returning |
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 Returning |
 A look downhill, to the trailhead and Big Rock |
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