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One Week Later

5/25/2019

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Another east to west Land’s End hike from the Lincoln Park steps to Geary & 48th Ave.

​East side: 1 thru 5

​East and west stairs along the Coastal Trail:  6 thru 17

Continuing:  18 thru 23

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This time instead of continuing to move along the more crowded Coastal Trail, up the 89 steps that connect the Coastal with the El Camino del Mar Trail:  24 thru 33 

El Camino del Mar Trail:  34 thru 52

Out to the upper parking lot overlook:   53

The 59 connector steps from upper to lower overlook: 54 thru 58

Passing Fort Miley on the way out of the park:  59, 60, 61


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LE Main East

5/23/2019

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​A Land’s End Coastal Trail hike up to the trail just before the upper parking lot overlook stairs.

First up the 52 LincolnPark steps and along the trail that’s just below there golf course down to the east trailhead for Land’s End:  1 thru 9

Coastal/Land’s End Trail:  10 thru 33

Up the 120 varied eastside steps:  34 thru 54

Down the westside stairway, 138 steps:  55 thru 73

Continuing, passing the Mile Rock Beach stairway:  74 thru 95


Up the trail, (not the stairs this tine) to the El amino del Mar Trail and out at the upper parking lot overlook:  96 thru 105

59 steps connecting upper and lower overlooks:  106

​Heading south to exit the park for the #38R Geary bus at 48th Ave. :  107 thru 110



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Radish Blooms

5/22/2019

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This short Glen Canyon hike was to view the wild radish spectacular that happens each year around this time. 

​Descending  from the canyon’s east rim this time, down from the west edge of Christopher Park in Diamond Heights:  1 thru 5

Steps down to the viewbench:  6 thru 10

93 steps in all for this first stairway:  11 thru 31

Continuing down:  32 thru 38

The radish flowers were mostly as remembered from last year in this area but it looked like a circle of tall grass and radish blooms had been mowed on the downhill side of the trail. So why not let the tall grass and radish alone for the short time this spring show runs? It will be desert-dry soon enough.

Uplifting blooms:  39 thru 59

Back again, this time ascending 79 steps to the top trail just below Christopher Park:  60 thru 71

Trail just below Christopher Park:  72, 73

Christopher Park:  74 thru 77


Steps to the tennis courts:  78, 79


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MS and LH

5/19/2019

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​
This vigorous Mount Sutro to Laguna Honda Hospital hike started at the foot of the Farnsworth stairs — 149 steps to Edgewood Ave.:  1 thru 5

​Edgewood Ave.:  6

At the south end of Edgewood, onto the Edgewood Trail:  7 thru 17

Up to the road and east to the Aldea Center at the trailhead for the East  Ridge Trail:  18 thru 33

Steeply up to the Quarry Road trailhead:  34, 35, 36

Shocked to see so much forest clearing on the Quarry and Clarendon Trails. Had been mostly pleased when I’d hiked this earlier, but this time disappointed (understatement of the year) at the results of all the hacking and chopping  since my last visits:  37 thru 51

Reaching the foot at Clarendon, there were all these concrete chunks.

Moving west on Clarendon, north side of the street:  52

Across the much appreciated green-railed skyway over Clarendon from Ashwood Lane in Forest Knolls to  Midtown Terrace Playground:  53 thru 64

Continuing along the sidewalk on this side with the forest above me, soon reached the Laguna Honda Woods Trail. I’d walked it twice before but not in a while:  65 

Apart from a few tree stumps that were not there before, it still looked like it did earlier, green and lush and a delight to climb, winding up to the back of the hospital buildings.  

No mountain bikers encountered this time — good thing as the trail is narrow. Later was on the hospital grounds and noticed a couple of them swooping down. 

They’ve been doing an excellent job bagging all the old junk that had accumulated over the years back here. Bunch of bags full at the edges of the trail, including some old metal garbage cans with their bottoms rotted out. A former dump site for the hospital?

No sea of daisies on the slope near the top of the trail this time. 

The trail up:  66 thru 107

Upon reaching the hospital area started to descend, but wanted to explore some of this interesting maze partway down:  108 thru 119

One of the highlights of this long hike was a greenery-enclosed dirt trail between the hospital grounds and Laguna Honda Blvd. Started out closer to the hospital buildings than the street way down there (view west), and then it began to curve downhill:  120 thru 123

The trail merges into a short paved walkway that'll take you nearly to the foot of the main stairway which climbs to the hospital from Laguna Honda Blvd. Directly across the street from the Forest Hill Metro Station — so THAT was convenient:  124 thru 135


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El Polin and Ecology

5/5/2019

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Starting this hike at the Presidio’s Lover’s Lane, a paved trail:  1 thru 5

Moving west, log-sitting:  6 thru 12

Descending to El Polin Spring:  13 thru 21

El Polin Spring:  22 thru 31

69 steps from El Polin to Ecology Trail:  32 thru 37

Ecology Trail to Inspiration Point Overlook:  38 thru 48

If these wood boxes were intended to replace the curvy old wood steps to Inspiration Point Overlook, they’re sure taking their time with it. Fine with me; hope they don’t get replaced:  49

Still 45 older steps:  50 thru 56

​Inspiration Point Overlook with parking lot off Arguello:  57, 58, 59

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Canyon and Coralino

5/3/2019

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Through Glen Park Rec, Center from the Elk & Bosworth bus stop:  1, 2, 3

Main Glen Canyon trail heading north:  4 thru 9

Green beauty, continuing:   10 thru 22

Up to a higher trail with Diamond Heights stilthouses above:  23 thru 37

​This short stair-trail goes up to Turquoise:  38 thru 41

Turquoise homes, south now:  42 thru 45

Turquoise ends at Amber. Coralino Lane climbs from Amber to Cameo, 130 steps:   46 thru 

A short trail connects the Police Academy with Christopher Park in Diamond Heights:



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