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Crissy West

8/28/2017

Off the #28 bus at the main Bridge stop for the Presidio's Battery East Trail: 1, 2, 3

Down the 153 steps to west Crissy Field: 4 thru 12

West Crissy: 13 thru 27

The Pet Cemetery is still here, now under the Presidio Parkway. Last walked this area several years ago: 28 thru 32

https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/pet-cemetery.htm

A few THEN pix (around 2008) of the old Doyle Drive, now replaced by the Presidio Parkway and tunnels: 33 thru 37

Back uphill from Crissy, on a trail not hiked in years. There’s now a welcoming bench: 38 thru 42

This trail connects with Andrews Road, a beloved old trail that’s halfway between two vehicle streets: 43 thru 48

Andrews connects with the Battery East stairway/trail: 49

Back to where I started, but one level up: 50

The second Presidio Parkway tunnel as seen from just west of the Transit Cafe: 51

1 Low overhead tunnel, Battery East Trail

3 Battery East Trail

4 153 steps descend to west Crissy Field and road to Fort Point

33 THEN: Doyle Dr. 2008

34 THEN

35 THEN

36 THEN

37 THEN - Fort Scott neighborhood

38 Back up

43 Andrews Road. Anyone want to paint a little door here?

44 Andrews Rd. is a trail between two vehicle streets

48 Wild roses

49 Andrews Rd. connects with the Battery East Trail

50 Now above the picnic area and low tunnels where I started this hike

51 Secomd Presidio Parkway tunnel

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Rob and the Garden

8/27/2017

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Over to the Fort Scott Community Garden via this trail: 1 thru 9

Down to the garden that’s behind homes on the south side of the Fort Scott neighborhood: 10, 11, 12

The garden: 13 thru 47

Trail up to the east side of Rob Hill Campground: 48, 49

13 steps to the Rob Hill Campground area from the trail: 50

Rob Hill Campground: 51 thru 54

30 old steps own from the campground to a short footbridge with 13 steps, just above Washington: 55 thru 63

3 Park benches made here

9 A right turn

11 Another right

12 Behind homes in the Fort Scott neighborhood

13 Fort Scott Community Garden

40 Garden gate and short stairway on the east side

48 Trail up to Rob Hill Campground

59 30 steps

61 13 steps

62 Washington Blvd.

63 Washington & Compton

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BTB Footbridge

8/26/2017

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Batteries to Bluffs Trail eastside: 1 thru 24

Halfway along my favorite trail a couple of guys were repairing a rough spot but were letting people through.

Trailhead for Marshall’s Beach: 25

The footbridge now has a new stairway; no more closed trail on the west side: 26 thru 39

West side up to Battery Crosby and down 16 steps from the battery. Up to Lincoln: 40 thru 52

Got a staircount of 463 this time for San Francisco’s longest stairway, but will recount next time due to the trailwork encountered.

Crossing Lincoln for the Connector Trail (208 steps) to Immigrant Point Overlook: 53 thru 62

Wording (Woodrow Wilson) on the Overlook’s stone wall: “We opened the gates to all the world and said Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome’”

The overlook is dedicated to those immigrants who entered through the Golden Gate.

Along Washington Blvd.: 63, 64

A 2008 THEN pic of the old Public Health Hospital being transformed into the present Landmark residences: 65

Marine Cemetery Overlook (103 steps): 66 thru 70.

1 West side of Golden Gate Overlook

2 Batteries to Bluffs east trailhead

9 Pacific Overlook above at Lincoln

15 130 steps to the viewplace from the east side

18 Back out to the main trail

25 Marshall's Beach trailhead, around 49 steps

26 New steps for the footbridge

51 16 down from Battery Crosby

52 N baker Beach below

53 Connector Trail up from Lincoln

54 208 steps

59 Immigrant Point Overlook

63 Washington Blvd.

66 A THEN from 2008. Public Health Hospital undergoing transformation to residences

66 Landmark residences as seen from Marine Cemetery Vista Overlook

67 Near the boardwalk

68 Stepped boardwalk

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Down from the Broadway Gate

8/23/2017

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fter uphilliing from California Street, Pacific Heights’ Baker St. stairs as seen from the top: 1, 2

Next stair-street over, Lyon steps from the top: 3, 4. 5

Thru the Presidio’s Broadway Gate, into the forest and down to the Simonds Loop neighborhood: 6 thru 11

East of the main Simonds Loop stairs is a short (25 steps) “hidden” stairway: 12 thru 16

Admitting the architecture: 17 thru 31

Wanted to check out how the “Tunnel Top” project is progressing but couldn’t see anything from where I was. Just a fence.

Several years ago there were a couple of old stairways descending from the north Main Post area to Crissy Field, just north of the Transit Cafe. Now there’s ongoing construction.

Love it that the #43 bus has a few stops in this area of the park. Got it this time in front of the Transit Cafe, then it winds uphill with a section of forest and Wood Line below.

1 Top of the Baker St. steps in Pacific Heights

3 The mighty Lyon

4 East Presidio forest to left

6 Now inside the park

10 Just above the Simonds Loop neighborhood

13 25 steps

16 Love these old buildings

30 Earthquake shacks

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Edgewood and Farnsworth

8/22/2017

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Started up the north steps for a short Mount Sutro hike; partway up detoured to ascend the old wood stairs for the trail behind Edgewood Ave. homes: 1 thru 4

Along the road: 5 thru 16

Down to the Edgewood Trail and out to Edgewood Ave.: 17 thru 40

Farnsworth Lane stairs (149) down to Willard: 41 thru 52

1 Short wood steps to trail behind Edgewood Ave. homes

5 Edgewood Trailhead down from the road

8 Lower Historic Trail center

13 Fairy Gates Trail

14 Looking down at the Fairy Gates

17 Down to the Edgewood Trail

22 The Edgewood is switchbacky

32 Edgewood Ave. ahead

41 Top of Farnsworth Lane

43 149 steps

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Cemsteps

8/18/2017

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Onto the Presidio’s Bay Area Ridge Trail behind the golf course buildings: first pic

Bay Area Ridge Trail (above Arguello) to the cemetery overlook: 2 thru 7

Cemetery Overlook: 8 thru 12

This time down the west side, the 98 stairs thru the forest to the Park Trail, then back up again to the overlook: 13 thru 32

Overlook area near the residences and back out to Arguello and crossing to continue the trail: 33 thru 43

1 Trail behind golf course buildings off Arguello

13 98 steps

30 Foot at Park Trail

31 Back up again

43 Crossing Arguello to continue the trail

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West Stairs

8/17/2017

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125 steps for the stairs descending from the Lands End Lookout and lower parking lot overlook: 1 thru 7

Over to the cavetop viewplace: 8 thru 25

From here, up the Coastal Trail from the westside: 142 steps: 26 thru 47

Around for the 59 steps between the upper and lower Coastal Trail overlooks:48 thru 53

3 About 125 steps

26 West Lands End trailhead for Coastal Trail

28 Original wood steps extended in 2009

33 Cliff House upper left

37 First stairway center

50 Lower to upper overlooks

51 59 steps

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Cemtrail

8/13/2017

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A favorite old Presidio trail, the east trailhead is just to the left of the Post Chapel. It emerges at the Cemetery Overlook: 1 thru 26.

The poem on the overlook's lowwalls is called "The Young Dead Solders" by Archibald MacLeish who served as an artillery officer in World War I.

Read the complete poem at http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/tag/national-cemetery.

From the overlook to the Bay Area Ridge Trail above Arguello: 27

Ecology Trail down to El Polin Spring from Inspiration Point Overlook and back up the east side: 28 thru 35

Out of the park at Spruce: 36, 37

27 Bay Area Ridge Trail

28 Ecology Trail down from Inspiration Point Overlook

29 El Polin Spring

34 Eastside zigzag trail

36 Presidio Wall at Spruce looking east

37 Pedestrian opening in Presidio Wall at Spruce near Julius Kahn Park

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Canyoning

8/11/2017

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Southwest side first, in from Bosworth: 1 thru 13

The west trail turns east: 14 thru 19

Up for a short distance: 20, 21

Down again and along the north trail: 22 thru 28

Back again on the eastside and up the flight of 61 steps: 29 thru 35

East and up this flight of 79 steps to the trail just below Christopher Park: 36 thru 42

Christopher Park in Diamond Heights: 43

14 East side now

20 Going up

23 Back down again, north

27 Berries here

28 Back again

31 And up the east side

32 61 steps

37 Continuing up the east side

38 79 steps

41 Out to Christopher Park

43 Christopher Park

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Stowhike

8/11/2017

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26 steps on the east side of Stow Lake: 1, 2

Looking across at the south trail up Strawberry Hill: 3, 4, 5

Over the bridge and up a Strawberry Hill trail: 6 thru 10

Huntington Falls: 11

The Chinese Pavilion: 12, 13, 14

Foot of the Falls: 15, 16

These (39) steps ascend to a walkway over Huntington Falls: 17

111 main steps from the foot pf the falls to the top at the reservoir: 18 thru 26

65 down to the north bridge: 27 thru 34

Round the west side: 35 thru 43

A few stone steps: 44

Downhill south: 45

From the nearby Botanical Garden: 46 thru 49