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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Point Reyes, Sky Camp, 7/23/11

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Overnight backpacking trip. First once since Boy Scouts (~18 years ago). Hiked 2.8 miles from the Visitor Center to Sky Camp via the Mt. Wittenberg Trail.

Hiked to Sculptured Beach from Sky Camp; Sky Trail, Woodward Valley, Coast Trail to Sculptured Beach, Coast Trail, Fire Lane back to Sky Camp. ~8.8 mile loop.

A dear and a deer.

Sculptured Beach

Muir Woods, 7/17/11

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Parked along Muir Woods Road. Deer Park Fire Road, Dipsea Trail, Muir Woods Road to Muir Woods National Monument Entrance. From there, I don't remember which way we went. I want to say Main Trail, Fern Creek Trail, Alice Eastwood Trail, Troop 80 Trail, TCC Trail, Stapelveldt Trail, Ben Johnson Trail, Bridge 4, Main Trail, Muir Woods Road.

Mt Tamalpais, 6/25/11

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Parked on Belvedere Avenue. There is not a lot of parking; be sure to come early if you want to park by the trailhead.
Matt Davis Trail, Pantoll Ranger Station, Steep Ravine Trail, Dipsea Trail, Highway 1, Belvedere Ave.

Salt Point State Park, 6/11/11-6/12/11

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Camped at the Woodside campground. We made our way to the beach on a trail from the campsite. It was not a maintained trail, if it was a trail at all. I recommend walking on the paved road back to the highway, and crossing the highway to a marked trail.

At the little visitor center, there was a nest of birds (barn sparrows, if I remember correctly) near the doorway. The parent bird would not come back to the nest if we were outside, so we had to observe through the door window.

Having fun taking macro shots.

Wandering about on the tafoni structures.

Having a waterproof camera is awesome!

Taken at a Russian Gulch, a beach we stopped at along the way home. There was a little parking lot you can turn into, with a short trail that leads to the beach (but lengthy and with enough plant growth that you can't see the beach from the trailhead).

Bon Tempe, 5/30/11

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Sunol Regional Wilderness, 5/14/11

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Ants hard at work.

This little pond had thousands of tiny frogs and tadpoles. If you look closely, there's a little stream of tadpoles between the patches of algae.

Carson Falls, 5/7/11

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9.5 loop; Parked on Bolinas-Fairfax Road on a decent-sized lot on the side of the road; enough room for maybe a dozen cars. Pine Mountain Road, Oat Hill Road, Old Vee Road, Kent Pump
Road (passed Little Carson Trail, went to the end of Kent Pump Road, then turned back to get onto) Little Carson Trail, Oat Hill Road, Pine Mountain Road.