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Greenwich Tel

7/31/2018

Starting off at Joice stairway, Nob Hill. The altar has been here many years. Pine partway to California: 1 thru 9

Joice continuing: 10 thru 13

Chinatown: 14, 15

North Beach: 16

Filbert’s west sidewalk stairs, north side of street: 17 thru 19

Filbert west stairway to Telegraph Hill Blvd. 20

Pioneer Park: 21, 22, 23

Down Greenwich east to Montgomery: 24 thru 36

Divided Montgomery north dead0end (for vehicles): 37

Lower part of the Greenwich stairs -- Montgomery to Sansome: 38 thru 66

1 Joice up from Pine, Nob Hill

4 The altar has been up here many years

9 Top of steps but Joice continues

14 Stockton tunnel stairs

15 Chinatown

16 Grant & Fresno, North Beach

17 Filbert north sidewalk steps

20 Filbert west steps up to Telegraph Hill Blvd.

21 Pioneer Park

22 West side of Coit Tower

23 Coit Tower's south side

24 Greenwich east stairway down from Coit Tower parking lot to Montgomery

28 North dead-end for vehicles of Montgomery below

30 Julius' Castle

37 Divided Montgomery

38 Starting down the second flight of Greenwich from Montgomery

40 The twin pups have been here a long time

44 Garden bench just off the stairs

45 Garden resting place

47 Back up to the walkway

49 Final stretch of stairway ahead

54 Private stairs up to a home

55 Center house used to have lifesized cardboard statue of Elvis in the window

63 Wild fennel and blackberry

66 Down to Sansome

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Ashwood

7/30/2018

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Another hike starting from Clarendon at Laguna Honda. Passing by the delicious new trail, looking down and across: 1 thru 6

The green skyway across Clarendon is a short distance from the Midtown Terrace Playground. Would love to see a lot more of these pedestrian walkways across busy streets: 7 thru 19

Ashwood Lane (109 steps): 20 thru 31

Ashwood climbs to Forest Knolls Dr.

Glenhaven Lane: 32, 33

Back down to Clarendon for the trail into Mount Sutro Forest. They’ve added a new trail marker: 34 thru 76

Looking down at the nursery I passed beneath earlier: 77

Aldea neighborhood residences: 78 thru 81

Top of the Aldea Community Center: 82

East Ridge Trail: 83, 84

Along the road: 85 thru 88

North Ridge Trail: 89, 90

Continuing downhill: 91 thru 105

Historic Trail from the road: 106, 107

Shortcut down to the UCSF parking lot (permits only): 108

From the parking lot: 109

The north stairway (136 steps) down to Medical Center Way behind the hospital buildings: 110 thru 123

1 Looking down and cross at the new trail from Clarendon

7 the skyway across Clarendon takes you to Ashwood Lane in Forest Knolls

13 Again I'm with Karl the Fog

22 Down a few steps to a walkway, then up again

23 A school is to the right; residences left as you start up

31 Looking back

32 Glenhaven Lane

34 Up from Clarendon into Mount Sutro Forest

35 So where did all this come from?

66 New trail marker

76 Up to Quarry Road

77 Nursery below

82 Aldea Community Center

83 East Ridge Trail left

85 Along the road on the pedestrian walkway

89 North Ridge trailhead across

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102 To Edgewood Trail

103 To Edgewood Trail

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107 Historic Trail

108 Shortcut steps to parking lot

109 View from parking lot

110 Starting down the north stairway

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Daisies

7/28/2018

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Thanks again to a good Facebook friend who told me about a new multi-use trail. And it’s a beauty!

The trailhead is on the Midtown Terrace side of Clarendon, just past Laguna Honda Reservoir: 1

This is the south side of Clarendon, across the street from “The Woods” residences. There’s a sign with a map at the trailhead: 2

It’s also a short distance from Olympia Way and the Midtown Terrace Playground.

Does this trail have an official name? If not, how ‘bout the “Woods” Trail?

Loved it immediately. Lush, narrow, definitely magical, with beautiful old trees: 3 thru 71

It curves round, winding up to a south ridge.

Nearer the summit was chainlink fencing and some old trash just off the trail. The cans, etc. will probably eventually be cleaned up. An old dumpsite for Laguna Honda Hospital? \

No one on the trail but me (and Karl the Fog). To my left as I climbed were backs of Dellbrook Ave. homes. To my right, above, some of the many hospital buildings, old and new.

Then there wee all these amazing white daisies along the trail: 72 thru 85

Up an old stairway (25 steps) but found the gate at the top locked: 86 thru 93

These benches are just inside the hospital grounds behind one of the buildings. Still no one around but me: 94, 95

Continued up to a way out at a hospital parking lot: 96 thru 101

From here delighted to see more woods just ahead: 102 thru 108

Hidden away in the forest here are two huge graffiti-covered tanks.

Started down (west) alongside the hospital grounds to my right; to the left the Juvenile Probation Dept.: 109

Down at street level was Woodside & Idora. Continued curving downhill to the #43 bus stop that’s just across from the Forest Hill Metro Station: 110

Another treat —the colorful mural at the entrance to the hospital grounds on Laguna Honda at the bus stop. I think this has to be my favorite of all murals seen so far: 111 thru 134

1 Across from Laguna Honda Reservoir up from Clarendon

2 Trailhead map at Clarendon

3 Ridge to the south above

7 Someone left an apple here

18 A great place to stop for lunch!

19 A cactus!

35 Some fencing

55 Old cans and other trash

57 Midtown Terrace neighborhood above

72 Laguna Honda Hospital buildings

90 Gate was locked

91 A peek inside

94 Behind the hospital buildings

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101 Out to a hospital parking lot

102 From the parking lot into more woods

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109 Leaving the woods, Juvenile Probation Dept. to right and Laguna Honda Hospital to left

110 Woodside near Idora

111 Mural at Laguna Hospital west entrance across from Forest HillMetro

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Portrail

7/23/2018

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Starting this hike from Bosworth near the south trailad into Glen Canyon Park: 1, 2, 3

Westside trail: 4 thru 13

Continuing north: 14 thru 22

Up to Portola Dr. are 56 steps alternating with stretches of dirt trail: 23 thru 44

Back down again: 45 thru 54

Up 61 steps (this side) from the canyon floor to the rocks: 55 thru 62

A tree I like, now minus its swing: 63

Up 79 more steps and onto the uppermost trail that will take you to Christopher Park: 64 thru 67

1 Homes on Bosworth

15 Diamond Heights above

18 Left turn, back down

19 Crossing Islais Creek

23 Trail up to Portola Dr. starts up

38 Top of it

39 Portola Dr. and Glenview ahead

45 Starting back down

46 Diamond Heights in distance

52 Wild radish

55 61 steps up

62 Stairways on each side of these rocks

63 Someone took the swing down

64 79 steps up the east side

66 Uppermost trail just below Christopher Park

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Filsteps

7/22/2018

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Chinatown: 1, 2, 3

Jackson Square: 4

Filbert stairway up from Sansome to where concrete meets wood: 5 thru 9

Filbert: 10 thru 13

Napier Lane: 14 thru 26

A few HENS from 1972: 224 Filbert, 226 Filbert, 226 and228 Filbert. 27 thru 30

Continuing up Filbert to Darrell Place: 31 thru 38

Darrell: 39 thru 45

Filbert from Darrell to Montgomery: 46, 47

Stairs for divided Montgomery: 48

Continuing up Filbert, Montgomery to Telegraph Hill Blvd./Pioneer Park: 49 thru 55

Telegraph Hill Blvd,: 56 thru 59

Pioneer Park/Coit Tower: 60, 61, 62

Coit Tower parking lot: 63, 64, 65

Stairway down to telegraph Hill Blvd. 66, 67, 68

Foot of park at top of Greenwich dead-end: 69

Greenwich sidewalk steps, south side, to Grant: 70 thru 75

Down to Grant: 76

Grant & Fresno: 77, 78, 79

Back thru Chinatown: 80

1 Chinatown

4 Jackson Square

5 Filbert stairs start up the east side

10 Now wood where the houses start

12 Grace Marchant used to live here long ago at 222 Filbert, corner Napier Lane

14 Napier Lane is a wood boardwalk off the Filbert steps

18 10 Napier may be oldest house on the Lane

22 224 Filbert top left

23 224 Filbert above from Napier

27 THEB; 224 FILBERT, 1972

28 THEN: 224 FILBERT, 1972

29 THEN: 226 FILBERT, 1972

30 THEN: 228 AND 226 FILBERT, 1972

31 226 and 224 Filbert as they look now

36 228 Filbert today

37 228 Filbert

38 Why are the windows boarded up on 230 Filbert?

39 Side of 230 Filbert corner of Darrell Place

40 230 Filbert's side on Darrell Pl.

41 Darrell Place. What's this?

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44 Paved walkway Darrell back to wood

46 Filbert steps again up to Montgomery

49 Stairway dividing upper and lower Montgomery

50 Filbert continues up from Montgomery

56 At Telegraph Hill Blvd. a walkway connects with the Greenwich stairway

57 Telegraph Hill Blvd.

58 Telegraph Hill Blvd. into Pioneer Park, south side

62 Coit Tower's "front yard"

63 Coit Tower parking lot to left

67 Down to Telegraph Hill Blvd. and Greenwich sidewalk stairways

69 Foot of park at Greenwich west side

70 Greenwich west sidewalk steps

77 Grant & Fresno

80 Chinatown again

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Found Some

7/9/2018

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Concerned that the park people had destroyed some blackberry bushes in the Presidio’s Simonds Loop neighborhood during recent drastic cutbacks in this area. Pleased, however, to have found some berries recently along the steps.

Crossing over from the top of the Lyon stairway (pic 1), thru the Broadway Gate into the park.

Forest delights and views east: 2 thru 5

Down into the Simonds Loop neighborhood, 61 steps upper to lower: 6 thru 11

More east Presidio neighborhood meandering: 12 thru 18

El Polin Spring: 19, 20

Up the westside (69 steps) to the Ecology Trail, continuing the climb to Inspiration Point Overlook (45 steps). It’s just off Arguello, a little way into the park from the south: 21 thru 37

North along Arguello to scan for berries and back up, heading south above Arguello: 38 thru 47

A visit to the Spire: 48 thru 52

1 Top of the Lyon

2 Looking east

7 Upper to lower Simonds Loop neighborhood

19 Trail to El Polin Spring

21 Top of steps from El Polin Spring to Ecology Trail

29 45 steps from Ecology Trail to Inspiration Point Overlook

35 Up to parking space for Inspiration Point Overlook off Arguello

37 Inspiration Point Overlook

38 Neighborhood is near entrance to Cemetery Overlook

44 Nasturtiums

46 Golf course beyond the trees, Arguello below to left

48 Andy Goldsworthy;s Spire

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Berry Bucket

7/8/2018

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A pleasant Land’s End hike starting up thru the Fort Miley forest: 1, 2, 3

Surprise! The old battery up here had been repainted, cleared of all its graffiti. Wish it would stay this way: 4, 5, 6

Continuing up, now above the VA Hospital’s picnic area that’s still being worked on and still closed to the public. But the view from above is always good: 7 thru 12

On my way to one of my favorite blackberry foraging spots, down to the Legion of Honor parking lot from the Battle of the Bulge Trail: 13, 14

Along the edge of the parking lot overlooking the Lincoln Park golf course: 15

And onto am overgrown trail that descends from the golf course: 16, 17, 18

Down to the main Coastal Trail partway up the east side steps: 19

To the top of these stairs: 20 thru 23

At the top, 138 steps to descend on the west side: 24 thru 28

Coastal Trail: 29

Up the connector stairs (89) between the Coastal and El Camino del Mar Trails to continue on the El Camino. Less people up here than on the Coastal: 30, 31, 32

Out at the El Camino del Mar Trail's west end to the upper parking lot overlook: 33, 34, 35

1 Up to the forest from the road

5 No graffiti this day! Wonder how long this will last.

7 Top of Land's End

8 From the VA Hospital north parking lot

10 Picnic area below still being worked on

13 Top of Battle of the Bulge Trail

15 Lincoln Park golf course below. Parking lot for Legion of Honor.

16 An overgrown trail awaits just off the golf course

17 Huge nasturtium leaves

18 Lincoln Park golf course above

19 Up to the Coastal Tail's east stairway

20 Coastal/Land's End Trail

21 Looking back

25 First of two benches along this west stairway

26 Looking back

29 Continuing on the Coastal Trail

30 Connector steps up to El Camino del Mar Trail

31 89 steps

33 Second Coastal Trail overlook from El Camino del Mar Trail

34 First Coastal Trail overlook from upper parking lot overlook

35 59 steps

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Elk Steps

7/7/2018

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Off the 44 O’Shaughnessy at Bosworth & Elk for a Glen Canyon hike — 37 steps to the playing field below: 1 thru 4

The west trail I usually take from the south end of the park: 5

24 of these newer steps at the Glen Park Rec. Ceher: 6, 7, 8

The familiar old Elk stairway down from Elk (where it merges into Diamond Heights Blvd.) has recently received 49 new replacement steps: 9 thru 14

Another surprise awaited. Upon reaching the top of the stairs and starting up Diamond Heights Blvd., along the canyon’s east rim, a new enclosed pedestrian walkway has been added between the edge and the Blvd. Nice!: 15 thru 30

Berkeley Way at beginning of second flight of the long Onique stairway: 31

View of Mount Davidson's Miraloma Park neighborhood across the canyon: 32

Onto Crags Court and its north dead-end for vehicles. 25 steps down from the Crags Court Community Garden to where a top trail: 33 thru 36

About 25 for this trail to the viewbench: 37 thru 42

15 steps up from the bench to the west edge of Christopher Park: 43, 44, 45

Canyon infomap at west edge of Christopher Park: 46 thru 49

Steps down to Diamond Heights Shopping Center: 50, 51