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11/6/2014

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Recently checked out the Presidio's enlarged Officers’ Club, the oldest building in the city (pic 1). It’s a nice re-do, but I miss the cozy little gift shop I used to like to stop in and browse. Still have a Presidio-logoed T-shirt I got there years ago. There were various nature and history books plus free maps and handouts. 

The only other gift shops in the park I know of now are the Warming Hut and the newer one at the bridgeviewing area, the Golden Gate Bridge Pavilion. The Pavilion is great for tourist souvenirs; take your guests. But of the two I prefer the Warming Hut, a combination coffee shop, gift shop, and bookstore. To get there from the bridge area, head east on the Battery East Trail and take the stairway down (153 steps, pic 2) to Crissy Field. 

So out the back way (the Ecology Trail is back here), curving around the Infantry Terrace neighborhood with its huge homes (pic 3). This 'hood’s tennis courts are below the residences; they take one of the old stone stairways down (pic 4).

Down from here and up the 56 stairs, pix 5, 6, 7, to the Post Chapel, onto the cemetery trail west to the overlook, a short, hilly trail hiked for years. Pic 8. Love the trail logs. 

One can’t resist taking photos of the Batteries to Bluffs Trail as the scenery is always gorgeous, even to someone who’s been here hundreds of times. The stairway-trail (473-ish steps) is very photogenic and loves to have her picture taken: 9 thru 17. 

For a change, partway up the Connector (pic 18), stayed on the short trail out to the residences: 19, 20. There are numerous ways into the Presidio Forest behind the buildings (last pic); not easy to pick just one. Would like to see these oceanview residences painted so they aren’t so drab. Think about viewing this hillside from Lands End, for example, and seeing different pastels or brights. 

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1. The Officers' Club is open again
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2. Battery East Trail steps down to Crissy Field
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3. Infantry Terrace neighborhood
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4. Down to the tennis courts
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5. Up these to the Post Chapel and cemetery trail
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6. Up from the Main Post
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7. Post Chapel at top of the stairs; trailhead is to left
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8. East to west on the cemetery trail to the Cemetery Overlook
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9. Batteries to Bluffs eastside. View Point center below.
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10. Midtrail
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11. Center, below, is the Marshall's Beach Trail
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12. This trail goes up and down
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13. San Francisco's largest park and longest stairway
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14. Continuing over to the west side, about .07 mile
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15. View from the westside
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16. Westside up
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17. Top at Battery Crosby
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18. Starting up the Connector Trail from Lincoln, 208 steps.
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19. Out at edge of the residences
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20. Another way to Immigrant Point Overlook (turn right) or down to Lincoln
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21. Presidio Forest above the Lobos Creek Valley Trail
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    I like meandering around on San Francisco's park trails and public stairways, sometimes taking photos, and enjoying nature and the outdoors.

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