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Bay Area Hiker: Photos from Mount Tam/Phoenix Lake Trailhead
Photos from a March 2001 hike on Mount Tamalpais (Phoenix Lake Trailhead)
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When the town of Ross closes the parking lot, you'll be greeted with this locked gate
Parking lot
Phoenix Lake Fire Road starts at the edge of the parking lot
Waterfall
Phoenix Lake Fire Road
Buttercup
Milkmaids
Flowering madrone
Spillway
Approaching junction, and Phoenix Lake
Turtles
Junction with Worn Springs Fire Road
Phoenix Lake Fire Road
Junction with Yolanda Trail
Shooting stars
Yolanda Trail
Climbing
Irises
Madrone
Spur path connects to Worn Springs Fire Road
Hound's tongue
Trail crests
Leaving the woods
Chamise
White flowers
Red larkspur
Trees thrive in the damp creases of the hill
Bluedicks
Yolanda Trail
Paintbrush
Lion Rock
Lupine
Poppy
Yolanda Trail
View to Tam's peaks
Grassland
Tiny lupines
This oak-studded hill makes for a good lunch stop on a sunny day
Royal larkspur
Back in the woods
Twin falls
Yolanda Trail
Approaching junction
Junction
Hidden Meadow Trail
Winding downhill
A look downhill, to one of my favorite trees
Under oaks
Passing through a damp area
Popcorn flowers
At the base of fenced switchbacks, a pretty bridge
Hound's tongue
Hidden Meadow
Rerouted trail and new bridge
A few redwoods
Rerouted trail
Junction
Shaver Grade
Junction
Junction
Creekside path
Returning to the fire road
Phoenix Lake
Junction with Yolanda Trail
Turtle
Black oak with spring foliage
Black oak
Butterfly
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