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Sterling Steps

11/26/2018

Trekking up Lombard from Polk on Russian Hill (steep!) past the top of Culebra Terrace (other end goes out to Chestnut): 1, 2

Up the north stairs of George Sterling Park from Larkin: 3 thru 10

Benches and fences: 11 thru 23

Over to the south, longest stairway (also up from Larkin): 24 thru 29

Alice Marble tennis courts: 30 thru 37

Steps down to Hyde and a cable car stop: 38

1 Culebra Terrace to left

3 North steps at Larkin

38 Down to Hyde

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Short Duney Hike

11/25/2018

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A short duney hike started at 25th Avenue, onto El Camino del Mar, and into the Presidio where the El Camino meets Lincoln: 1, 2

Going up here, then down to the beach: 3 thru 7

Back up to the east: 8

Three entrances to the beach before reaching the boardwalk: 9, 10, 11

The new boardwalk looks the sane as it did last visit, so maybe they aren’t gonna extend it east to either of the Sand Ladders.

The new boardwalk and viewplace with benches: 12 thru 32

Heading south: 33, 34, 35

Old bunker: 36,37, 38

Now to climb over this to get to the road and the 29 Sunset, the beach bus sop: 39

View from the MUNI stop: 40

40 At the bus stop

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FS Garden

11/24/2018

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Entering te Presidio at 14th Ave.: 1, 2, 3

Climbing the stairs to the Marine Cemetery Vista Overlook: 4 thru 8

View down to Presidio Landmark residences, formerly the Public Health Hospital: 9

Uphill on Battery Caulfield Road to Rob Hill Campground: 10, 11

A favorite trail down to the Fort Scott Community Garden from the east side of Rob Hill Campground: 12, 13

To the left: 14

Left: 15

Wisser Ct.: 16

Fort Scott Community Garden: 17 thru 30

Fort Scott neighborhood: 31 thru 39

2 Former military housing

9 Former Public Health Hospital, now private residences (2010)

10 Rob Hill Campground

12 Trail down to the garden

13 Down to a residential neighborhood

14 Go left

15 Wisser Ct., left

16 Wisser Ct.

25 New addition

31 Heading west

33 Fort Scott neighborhood

35 Stairs down to the tennis courts

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Priest

11/23/2018

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For this upper Nob Hill hike, a visit to the Priest stairway. It’s on Washington between Leavenworth and Jones and on the cable car line.

Last visit the railings were wood and a tad rickety. Now there are new rails.

Still 56 steps to a dead-end walkway.

THEN: 1

NOW: 2

Anyone familiar with a very old book, maybe the first of its kind, “San Francisco at your Feet” by Margot Patterson Doss?

Used to have this book years ago and think this was where I read that Priest used to have a gorgeous view east. But then it was blocked by a newer building. This is to the left in the pix.

Priest: 3 thru 14

Reed, next door to Priest, is also a dead-end but has some sidewalk steps on the right side: 15, 16

Washington St.: 17

Leroy Pl. is off Sacramento and is a dead-end on both sides. The north side has a huge tank at its dead-end. Between Leavenworth and Jones.

Leroy north: 18, 19

Leroy south: 20

Golden Court, between Leavenworth an Jones, is a dead-end walkway off Sacramento: 21 thru 37

Sacramento: 38

Sacramento St. between Jones & Taylor, north side of Grace Cathedral and its painted-on Labyrinth: 39, 40, 41

1 THEN: Wood railings

2 NOW: Still 56 steps

15 Reed

18 Dead-end of Leroy

19 Tanks a lot!

21 Entrance to Golden

37 Back out to Sacramento

38 Sacramento

39 North side of Grace Cathedral buildings, Sacramento St.

40 Grace Cathedral's Labyrinth

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Havens Lombard

11/21/2018

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Havens starts up from Leavenworth between two residences: 1, 2, 3

Backs of homes on Filbert are on the north side: 4 thru 30

The steps turn into a dead-end walkway, not thru to Hyde: 31, 32

Back again: 33 thru 36

Top walkway: 37 thru 41

Down to the street: 42, 43, 44

Past Filbert at Leavenworth. Filbert here has sidewalk stairways on both sides: 45 thru 48

Leavenworth: 49

Michelangelo Playground: 50

Lurmont: 521

Up the Lombard south side-stairs to Hyde: 52 thru 63

East stairway into George Sterling Park. Cable car stop is here on Hyde: 64

45 Filbert's foot

48 Borth sidewalk steps

49 Leavenworth

50 Michelangelo Playground

51 Lurmont

52 South Lombard steps

64 East stairway into George Sterling Park from Hyde

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Filbert Napier Darrell

11/18/2018

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Starting up the Filbert steps from Sansome: 1 thru 7

Wood Filbert steps: 8 thru 13

Napier Lane, first Filbert steps offshoot: 14 thru 38

Continuing up wood Filbert to Darrell Place: 39 thru 52

Darrell Place, second Filbert steps offshoot: 53 thru 68

Up to Montgomery: 69

Divided Montgomery: 70 thru 74

Upper Filbert stairs to Pioneer Park: 75 thru 82

380 steps from Sansome to Telegraph Hill Blvd.

Pioneer Park: 83 thru 92

Inside the Coit Tower lobby: 93 thru 98

Outside again. Greenwich steps in the park down to Telegraph Hill Blvd.: 99 thru 103

8 Wood steps start

16 224 Filbert's side from Napier

18 10 Napier

28 22 Napier

32 Private stairs

40 224 Filbert

44 226 Filbert

45 228 Filbert

46 228 Filbert

47 230 Filbert

49 230 Filbert

50 Looking across

53 Darrell, left

60 Darrell is not thru to Greenwich

62 230 Filbert side window

69 Up to Montgomery

70 Montgomery is a divided street here

88 Coit Tower's front yard

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101

102

103

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Edgewalk

11/14/2018

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Arlington, heading east from the Glen Park BART: 1

A small openspace Near San Jose: 2

Arlington again: 3

Near St. Marys, pedestrian skyway: 4, 5, 6

St. Marys up to Arlington from San Jose: 7, 8, 9

Arlington Path: 10 thru 25

Richland Ave. bridge: 26 thru 32

Arlington Path between bridges: 33 thru 51

Highland Ave. bridge: 52 thru 56

Arlington: 57, 58, 59

Bernal Cut Path now: 60, 61

Bernal Cut Path: 62 thru 71

Park StreetGarden: 72

Bernal Cut Path: 73 thru 93

South side of the walkers' skyway: 94, 95, 96

Continuing west: 97, 98

The J-Church Metro pedestrian skyway: 99

1 Arlington, Glen Park neighborhood

2 Sitting on a bench in a small openspace

3 Arlington

4 Pedestrian bridge near St. Marys

5 Over San Jose

7 St. Matys on the Glen Park side of San Jose

8 Up to Arlington

10 Arlington Path

26 Arlington Path meets the Richland bridge

27 Richland bridge over San Jose

35 Looking across

36 Stairway down to San Jose

40 Arlington Community Garden

51 Arlington

52 Highland Ave. bridge

56 Highland Ave. bridge over San Jose

57 Arlington

60 Starting up the Bernal Cut Path in the south side

62 Still here

65 HighlandAve. steps to San Jose

72 Park Garden

75 Richland Ave bridge stairs from the south side

76 Bernal Cut Path with Glen Park across

94 South side of pedestrian skyway

99 Pedestrian bridge with steps down to J-Church Metro stops on San Jose. Bridge out to Glen Park BART

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Transformation

11/13/2018

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Surrey, Glen Park neighborhood: 1, 2, 3

Starting up Penny Lane at its steps entrance on the north side of Surrey: 4

Penny Lane has 48 steps. They turn a corner and a dirt trail cclimbs to Sussex: 5 thru 18

Only part not done this time was the part of Penny that’s entered from Diamond, as since I was on Sussex decided to visit Poppy Lane east as it’s just above Sussex.

Sussex; 19 thru 24

Poppy east is still a dead-end out to Bemis as far I could tell.

Poppy Lane east from Diamond: 25 thru 37

Here’s a THEN from a couple of years ago — this little shed: 38

NOW — transformed into a cute cottage: 39 thru 42

End of Poppy near Bemis: 43, 44

Back down to Diamond and crossing it for Poppy Lane west: 45, 46

It turns a corner and comes out at Conrad.

Poppy Lane west: 47 thru 61

Sussex: 62 thru 69

Ohlone Way down from Sussex to Surrey: 70 thru 84

This house on Surrey (at Lippard) was for sale. Probably been snapped up by now.

THEN -- 1972: 85

NOW -- 86, 87

1 Surrey

4 Penny Lane entrance at Surrey

13 Up to Sussex

18 Out to Sussex

19 Sussex

25 Poppy Lane east from Diamond

28 "Take me home, country rads"

36 Looking back

38 THEN: 2016

39 OW

43 Near end of Poppy east, near Bemis

45 Back down to Diamond

46 Poppy Lane east at Diamond

47 Poppy Lane west

62 Sussex

70 Ohlone Way

84 Ohlone out at Surrey

85 THEN -- Surrey at Lippard: 1972

86 NOW -- Surrey at Lippard

87 NOW -- Surrey & Lippard

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Bernaltrek

11/11/2018

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The 24 Divisadero bus that normally runs the length of Cortland in Bernal lHeights detoured all the way down Mission to Crescent before turning east. It was street fair day (Fiesta on the Hill).

So off at Andover and Crescent, had to walk several blocks up to Cortland.

One would think there’d be a closer street on which they could turn left that was closer than Crescent. I forgot how far I had to walk…

Crescent: 1, 2

Andover: 3 thru 9

Fiesta on the Hill (10) was from Bennington to around Folsom on Cortland; started uphill north on Folsom: 11

The Prentiss sidewalk steps rise from Powhattan: 12

Powhattan: 13

These 75 stairs ascend from Powhattan to Chapman. Called Nevada Openspace on Google Maps, it's not shown as a stairway: 14 thru 22

Older steps to the right are close to the homes on this side: 23, 24, 25

Steeply up to the west end of Mayflower on Nevada: 26

Mayflower is still a dirt road here just below Bernal Heights Blvd.: 27 thru 32

Up 28 steps from Mayflower to Bernal Heights Blvd.: 33, 34, 35

Top of Prentiss at Bernal Height Blvd.: 36 thru 39

Noticed the Bernal Heights fenced-in Community Garden gate off the Blvd. was unlocked and open so entered for a short bench-sit at the top of the tiered garden: 40 thru 49

But then someone working below me in the garden exited and locked the gate with me inside.

Down to a lower level, saw a gate on the west side. Fortunately it wasn’t locked but had to scramble up the slope to the Blvd.

The Eye is still here on Bernal Heights Blvd.: 50

More stairs down from the Blvd. Top of Gates: 51

Bernal Heights Blvd.: 52, 53

Moultrie is a through trail, part stairs, down to Powhattan: 54

Bernal Heights Park has its own Labyrinth: 55, 56

The next stairway (top of Andover) also descends from the south edge of the park to Powhattan. You might look at it and think the stairs only lead to a home or homes, but it’s through and shown on Google Maps. Now it's more overgrown than I’ve ever seen it, however. It zigs with a very short dirt trail, then the steps continue: 57 thru 73

Powhattan: 74

Andover continuing down to Cortland: 75 thru 86

Since I didn’t know which street the bus would be using on its journey west out to Mission, just walked all the way down Cortland to the 30th & Mission stop: 87 thru 99