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Behind MP

7/30/2019

Starting off just above Arguello for another Presidio hike: 1

A neighborhood near the Cemetery Overlook: 2, 3

Downhill from Arguello: 4, 5

A delightful old trail that meanders behind Main Post buildings and connects with the Ecology Trail: 6 thru 18

More Main Post: 19, 20

Behind the Inn at the Presidio. To the right is the trailhead for the Ecology Trail: 21

Down the stairs from the Main Post/Inn at the Presidio to a #43 bus stop at Presidio Blvd. Greenery at the shelter includes rosemary: 22 thru 25

1 Trail above Arguello

2 Neighborhood near the Cemetery Overlook

4 A downhill trail

7 Paved trail behind Main Post buildings

9 Looking back

10 Looking back

13 Ecology Trail connection

15 Old steps behind pic #13 above

19 Main Post buildings

21 Behind Inn at the Presidio. Trailhead for Ecology Trail upper right

22 These 36 steps used to be concrete with no railings

24 Near the bus stop

25 Presidio Blvd. bus shelter for the #43

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Circle East

7/29/2019

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Top of the Baker stairs at Broadway on the way to the Presidio’s Broadway Gate: 1

Top of the Lyon stairway at Broadway: 2, 3

Into the park and the forest here: 4, 5

Down thru a second gate to the Upper Simonds Loop neighborhood, descending the steps to Lower Simonds Loop: 6 thru 14

Down to another forested part of the park: 15, 16, 17

Crossing Lover’s Lane and into another eastside Presidio neighborhood: 18 thru 23

Circling round to the picnic area at Paul Goode Field. This area was beautifully redone several years ago: 24, 25

Moving east, back to Lover’s Lane: 26 thru 30

Andy Goldsworthy’s Wood Line: 31. 32

Back up thru the woods to the #43 bus stop: 33 thru 38

1 Top of the Baker stairs, Pacific Heights

2 Top of the Lyon stairway at Broadway

9 Upper to Lower Simonds Loop

24 South end of Paul Goode Field, below Julius Kahn Park

31 Wood Line

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LE Brambles

7/29/2019

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Up thru the Fort Miley Forest from 48th Ave.: 1, 2, 3

El Camino del Mar Trail: 4

Top of the 47 steps to the west edge of the Legion of Honor parking lot: 5

Near the Legion of Honor art museum: 6 thru 9

Down to a rough, overgrown trail partially covered by a sea of wild nasturtiums, the golf course above: 10 thru 13

Out to the mainCoastal/Land’s End Trail from the foot of the brambly trail, continuing to the east Land’s End trailhead: 14 thru 27

Lincoln Park steps, descending to the 32nd Ave. bus stop in the Outer Richmond neighborhood: 28, 29

4 El Camino del Mar Trail

5 Top of steps to west edge of Legion of Honor parking lot

6 Across from the Legion of Honor

10 Overgrown trail

11 Wild nasturtiums

12 Lincoln Park golf course above

13 Good place to stop for a bite to eat

14 Down the eastside steps - Coastal Trail

18 Looking back

26 Out to Eagle's Point Overlook

27 East trailhead

28 Lincoln Park stairs

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Foraging FS

7/27/2019

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Trail over to Fort Scott from the second bridge bus stop: 1, 2

The Log Cabin: 3

Foraging for blackberries on an overgrown trail: 4 thru 14

Miller Road: 15 thru 20

The old church: 21, 22, 23

3 Log Cabin

12 Nasturtiums

13 Wild radish

21 Back of the church

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Lower Historic Edgewood

7/6/2019

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Upper Stanyan trailhead for the lower Historic Trail in Mount Sutro Forest: 1

Historic Trail: 2 thru 26

Connecting with the Edgewood Traill: 27

Edgewood Trail out to Edgewood Ave.: 28 thru 50

Edgewood Ave.: 51 thru 59

Farnsworth stairway (149 steps) descends from Edgewood Ave. to Willard: 60 thru 65

1 Short stairway up from Stanyan between two homes

16 This is a rough trail I've taken several times from Belgrave, top of Stanyan, that connects with the lower Historic,

27 Connecting with the Edgewood here

47 Coming to the end of the Edgewood Trail at Edgerwood Ave.

49 Looking down from Edgewood Ave.

51 Redbricked Edgewood Ave,

52 North on Edgewood Ave. to the Farnsworth stairs

60 Top of Farnsworth at Edgewood Ave.

61 149 steps descend to Willard

64 Looking back

65 Farnsworth's foot

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Tiz the Season

7/5/2019

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Up thru Land’s End’s Fort Miley Forest: 1, 2, 3

Down some “hidden” steps to a trail just above the old Fort Miley buildings: 4 thru 8

It’s been cleared some around here since my last visit. 9 thru 21

This thick sand trail is easier to slide down than to climb up: 22 thru 31

It descends to the El Camino del Mar Traill.

West on the El Camino: 32 thru 36

Passing the 89 steps that connect theEl Camino with the Coastal Trail: 37, 38, 39

Just past the footbridge 47 steps will take you up to the west end of the Legion of Honor parking lot: 40, 41

Back on the El Camino to the upper parking lot overlook: 42 thru 50

59 steps connect the upper and lower overlooks: 51 thru 54

1 Up from 48th Ave. into Fort Miley Forest

2 Trail to the Octagon House

27 Sticky Monkey Flower

33 Mustard and fennel together

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Overgrown

7/5/2019

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Lincoln Park steps just below the golf course: 1

Uphill along the road: 2 thru 13

Blackberry foraging at one of my favorite Land’s End spots, a sea of wild nasturtiums and blackberry bushes just below the golf course. Didn’t find many ripe ones — a bit too early. The trail could not be seen from the top and it was difficult to push my way thru: 14 thru 19

A few lost golfballs down here too.

When I’d made my careful way nearly to the open area, covering the trail was what appeared to be someone’s bed. You’d think a homeless encampment would be somewhere offtrail. But it was so wild and overgrown here that maybe the person didn’t realize it was a trail.

And what’s with the dumped strollers in the bushes in two different locations?

The openspace: 20, 21

Up to the east stairway: 22

Down the east stairway (Coastal Trail) heading east: 23 thru 53

Out to Eagle’s Point and the east trailhead for the park: 54

Circling back to my beginning, the Lincoln Park stairs: 55

1 Lincoln Park steps

13 Downhill to the north

14 A trail thru blackberry bushes and nasturtiums

15 Golf course above

16 A lunch-log

17 Continuing down

20 Another openspace at the foot

22 Coastal Trail east above

23 Coastal Trail east steps

25 Looking back

26 A popular sitting log

27 Looking back

29 Looking back

54 Out past Eagle's Point to the east trailhead

55 Top of the Lincoln Park steps

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Calhoun Alta

7/4/2019

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First two pix: Joice stairway on Nob Hill between Pine and California.

Now on Telegraph Hill , Union St.: 3

top of Union Street at Montgomery. The old Speedy’s grocery is a framing shop these days: 4, 5

A THEN on Union from early 1970s and NOWs: 6, 7, 8

Calhoun Terrace, east end of Union. THENs mostly from 1970s (except unsure of date of pic ). Calhoun is a dead-end double stairway with a north-south beautifully transformed walkway at the foot: 9 thru 53

You can’t see this old house well now, even just below it, because ofd the trees — just like 228 Filbert steps: 54, 55, 56

Alta: 57, 58

Alta Street THENs (1970s) and NOWs: 59 thru 68

East dead-end of lower ALTA and view north to Filbert/Napier: 69, 70, 71

Upper Alta: 72 thru 77

Upper Filbert steps to Telegraph Hill Blvd.: 78 thru 86

Telegraph Hill Blvd. walkway: 87, 88, 89

Telegraph Hill Blvd. stairs to Pioneer Park.Coit Tower: 90

View of west Filbert steps as of June 2019: 91

Telegraph Hill Blvd. over to Greenwich steps, down from Pioneer Park: 92

Greenwich west sidewalk steps on both sides of the street: 93, 94

THEN and NOW south side of Greenwich: 95 thru 100

North side of Greenwich side steps: 101 thru 106

Child has stairs down to Lombard at its north dead-end for vehicles: 107

Grant — taken during the North Beach Festival (annual street fair) in June: 108 thru 112

Broadway: 113

Grant Ave. in Chinatown: 114

1 Joice, Nob Hill

2 Pine to California

3 Union St.

4 Speedy's is now a framing shop

5 Montgomery at Union

6 THEN - 1972. Union St.

7 NOW - June 2019

8 NOW

9 THEN - 1972. East end of Union at Calhoun Terrace

10 THEN - year?

11 NOW - 2019

12 NOW

16 THEN - Calhoun Terrace 1972

17 THEN - Calhoun Terr. 2004

18 NOW - June 2019

19 NOW

22 Cal hour double stairway

41 North-south walkway

44 Up the south steps

52 Top of the south stairway

54 South end of Calhoun

57 Alta St.

59 THEN - A former residence, 1970s, Lower Alta.

60 NOW - 23 Alta's replacement left

61 THEN - 1970s. House on right replaced. House on left still here.

62 NOW

65 THEN - 1970s. East end of Alta.

66 THEN - Later in 1970s

67 NOW - June 2019

68 NOW

69 Looking down from east end of Alta at Filbert steps and Napier Lane

70 Looking north from east end of Alta at Napier and Filbert

71 East end of Alta St.

72 Upper Alta

90 Stairs up to Pioneer Park on the south side

91 West Filbert steps as of June 2019

92 West stairs from Pioneer Park to Telegraph Hill Blvd./Greenwich steps west

95 THEN - 1972. Greenwich south sidewalk steps down from Telegraph Hill Blvd.

96 NOW - June 2019

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101 North Greenwich west sidewalk steps

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107 Child has steps down to Lombard at end of its dead-end for vehicles

108 Nobles up from Grant during North Beach Festival in June

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113 Broadway

114 Chinatown

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Vallejo Filbert

7/1/2019

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A June Telegraph Hill hike with several mostly 1970s THENS alongside the way they look now, June 2019.

Kearny at the top of the Peter Machiarini Steps: 1, 2

Vallejo on the way up to the Vallejo steps gardenspot: 3

Vallejo stairway down to Montgomery: 4 thru 65

A couple of THENs from the 1970s when this was a steep concrete slab in the center: 66, 67

Up Montgomery and its steps to Union: 68 thru 76

Montgomery upper and lower: 77

Descending the Filbert steps from lower Montgomery to Darrell: 78, 79, 80

Darrell Place. A THEN from the 1980s and its replacement: 81 thru 97

Filbert steps, Darrell to Napier: 98 thru 107

Napier Lane: 108 thru 124

Back out to Filbert and a THEN/NOW of 224 Filbert: 125 thru 134

Castle St.: 135

Windsor, an alley off Vallejo, 1970s THENs and June 2019: 136 thru 141

A garage door on Vallejo near Grant: 142