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Wood Ecol

11/15/2019

Andy Goldsworthy’s Wood Line south to north, just up from the Presidio's Lover’s Lane: 1 thru 8

Over to the east edge of the trail that descends to El Polin Spring.

The old wood stairway that used to be here (THEN, 2009 - pic 9) got covered up and replaced with an accessible zigzag trail (10 thru 15):

The circular concrete road down here (THEN, 2009 - pic 16 )was replaced with a boardwalk and benches (17), but the old willow tree is still here: 18

Another bench: 19

On the west side, 69 steps have replaced the shorter stairway, connecting with the Ecology Trail: 20, 21, 22

Ecology Trail: 23, 24, 25

The Ecology Trail climbs to Inspiration Point Overlook, now with a replacement stairway: 26 thru 30

Inspiration Point Overlook: 31, 32

1 Wood Line

9 THEN - 2009: Old steps down to El Polin Spring

10 NOW - Down to El Polin Spring from the east side

16 THEN - 2009: Circular road and old stairway

17 NOW - The boardwalk

18 NOW - The willow tree is still here

20 69 steps up on the west side connecting with the Ecology Trail

26 The old stairway got replaced

28 33 steps

29 Out at Inspiration Point Overlook

30 Looking down from the top of the stairs

31 Inspiration Point Overlook, off Arguello

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Since Last

11/13/2019

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This Russian Hill hike was to check out an area on the south side of George Sterling Park. There was work in progress next to the main stairway when last visited.

Waldo, Russian Hill, off Leavemworth: 1

Hyde: 2

Top of Greenwich north sidewalk (some steps). Greenwich here descends to a dead-end for vehicles at the top of the minipark: 3

Up from Hyde to George Sterling Park, one street over from the top of Lombard and on the cable car line: 4, 5

Alice Marble tennis courts at the top: 6 thru 10

27 steps down to the first landing of the main stairway: 11, 12

Right turn: 13 thru 17

Northwest steps down to Larkin: 18, 19, 20

A shorter flight: 21, 22

Down to another level: 23 thru 31

The main, longest stairway descends to Larkin: 32, 33, 34

What I was curious about - these new curvy bricked area and plantings between the main stairway and homes on the south side of the park: 35 thru 46

Back up again: 47 thru 50

Hyde St.: 51

Hastings off Hyde: 52, 53

Delgado off Hyde: 54

Hyde: 55, 56

Hyde & Vallejo Minipark from across the street: 57

Broadway Tunnel as seen from Hyde: 58, 59, 60

Lynch, Nob Hill: 61

Hyde, Nob Hill: 62, 63, 64

Pine Street, Nob Hill: 65, 66, 67

1 Waldo off Leavenworth

2 Hyde

3 Greenwich north sidewalk down from Hyde

4 Steps from Hyde into George Sterling Park

5 Looking down to Hyde St. and cable car tracks

6 Alice Marble Tennis Courts to right

8 View west

11 Top of the main stairway on the south side of the park

12 Looking back up

13 First level down

18 Northwest steps down

20 Stairs down to Larkin

21 Back up a short stairway to first level

23 Second level

28 Looking south to the main stairway

30 Looking back

32 Main stairway

33 Mn stairs down to Larkin

34 Looking back up the main stairway

35 The new bricked walkway to right

36 New plantings

47 Back up again

51 Hyde St.

52 Hastings off Hyde

53 Hastings off Hyde

54 Delgado off Hyde

55 Hyde Street

56 Hyde St.

57 Hyde & Vallejo Minipark from across the street

58 Broadway Tunnel - north side

59 Broadway Tunnel

60 Broadway Tunnel - view of the south side

61 Lynch off Hyde - now Nob Hill

62 Hyde

63 Hyde

64 Hyde

65 Pine, Nob Hill

66 Pine, Nob Hill

67 Pine, Nob Hill

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Bernal Short

11/12/2019

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On Bocana, one of Bernal’s former 1906 earthquake refugee shacks still being lived in: 1

A trail into the park from the top of Bocana: 2 thru 6

Bernal Heights Park west: 7 thru 11

Top of Moultrie, part steps, part trail — access from the park down to Powhattan: 12

Top of Amdover — stairs from the park to Powhattan. Steps alongside homes, a very short E-W path, and more steps: 13 thru 30

Powhattan: 31

Andover: 32 thru 35

Cortland: 36 thru 40

1 Bocana former earthquake refugee cottage

2 Top of Bocana

3 Trail into Bernal Heights Park

5 Into Bernal Heights Park

7 Bernal Heights Park - view west

12 Top of Moultrie - down to Powhattan

13 Another way down from the park to Powhattan

14 Right turn

15 Looking back up

17 Down alongside homes

18 Looking back

19 Another right turn below

20 Looking back up

21 An E-W short pathway here

22 Short pathway to more steps

24 More steps down

25 Down to Powhattan

27 Looking back up

28 Andover & Powhattan

31 Powhattn

32 Andover

33 Andover

34 Andover

35 Andover

36 Love this store (Cortland)

37 Cortland

38 Cortland

39 Prospect steps up from Cortland

40 Cortland near Mission

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Hidden Treasure

11/11/2019

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Passing Lobos Valley Overlook, climbing Rob Hill on Battery Caulfield Rd.: 1 thru 5

Into a section of Presidio Forest below Rob Hill Campground: 6 thru 10

A short trail descends to Fort Scott from the east edge of the campground: 11 thru 15

A visit to the Fort Scott Community Garden: 16 thru 40

Fort Scott neighborhood: 41 thru 46

Main steps to Golden Gate Overlook: 47

1 Lobos Valley Overlook to left

4 Up Battery Caulfield Rd.

5 View west from top of Battery Caulfield Rd.

11 Downhill from the campground

13 Looking back

14 Fort Scott neighborhood's south edge

16 Fort Scott C community Garden

33 Steps down from the garden

42 Fort Scott neighborhood

43 Top of one of the stone stairways

44 Looking north

47 Main Golden Gate Overlook steps

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Bot

11/10/2019

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Front of Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden: 1 thru 4

Admission is free if you have proof of San Francisco residency.

I don’t necessarily visit all the separate gardens each time I go. This time starting on the north side and around to the south.

Pix from inside, meandering, sitting: 5 thru 75

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Strawberry Top

11/9/2019

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Some Stow Lake residents: 1, 2, 3

Strawberry Hill: 4

The old stone bridge: 5, 6

Trail up Strawberry Hill, highest elevation in Golden Gate Park: 7 thru 14

Top of Huntington Falls: 15 thru 19

Alongside the reservoir: 20 thru 24

Above the reservoir, 28 steps to the top of the hill: 25, 26

Strawberry hilltop: 27 thru 32

Down again to the reservoir: 33 thru 36

Stairs alongside the falls: 37 thru 46

39 steps for this shorter stairway that ascends to the second short bridge that crosses the falls: 47 thru 53

The steps connect with the main, longer, Huntington Falls stairway, this steep, green-railed.

Foot of the falls: 54 thru 58

Foot of the main stairway: 59

Passing the foot of another stairway, this with the bench partway down: 60 thru 63

Crossing the north bridge: 64

Circling to the boathouse: 65, 66, 67

Back the way I came: 68 thru 72

4 Strawberry Hill

5 Crossing the old stone bridge

7 Trail up to the left

8 Starting up

10 Mount Sutro in distance

15 Top walkers' crossover

16 Huntington Falls

19 Top of the falls

27 Top of the hill

31 Mount Sutro in distance

33 Top of the hill back down to the reservoir

59 foot of the main stairway

64 North bridge

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Batteries GGO

11/8/2019

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37 main steps to the Presidio's Golden Gate Overlook: 1, 2

The overlook and views from: 3 thru 8

20 north steps: 9, 10, 11

Row of batteriesL 12 thru 19

One of the doors was open: 20 thru 23

Used to descend all the way to the foot of these battery steps before the pedestrian/bicycle bridge: 24 thru 39

Trailing east: 40 thru 46

Bridgeview area: 47 thru 67

1 Main steps to Golden Gate Overlook

9 20 north steps

24 A recent pedestrian/cyclist bridge

30 Looking back

32 Used to descend all of these steps

34 Newer steps

38 As seen from the walkway

40 This trail has been widened

47 Fort Point below

65 Roundhouse Cafe steps

67 Visitor Center

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Too Early

11/7/2019

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East from the bridge area: 1, 2, 3

Battery East Trail: 4 thru 9

153 Battery East stairs: 10 thru 16

Walked the half mile to Fort Point from the foot of the stairway only to find the Fort closed. Was too early; it opens at 1p.m. Some pix from outside: 17 thru 31

Back up the stairs: 32, 33, 34

Trail to Andrews Road: 35, 36

Battery East Trail: 37 thru 41

The low overhead tunnel out to the picnic area: 42 thru 45

Up from the picnic spot: 46

Bridge viewplace and visitor center: 47, 48

2 Low overhead tunnel to right -- from the road above

4 Battery East Trail

10 Battery East steps

11 153 steps

12 Looking back up

14 Looking back up

16 Foot of the steps

20 Fort Point ahead

31 Back again

32 And back up the stairway

37 Battery East Trail again

42 The short tunnel ahead

44 Looking back

46 Steeply up from the picnic area

48 The #28 bus stop is here

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Greenwich Joice

11/6/2019

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Starting this hike on Nob Hill’s Joice: 1 thru 6

Joice continues across California St.: 7, 8

Chinatown: 9 thru 20

Crossing Broadway, north on Grant to Greenwich: 21 thru 24

Greenwich’s south sidewalk is below the street with some steps: 25 thru 30

Stairs to Telegraph Hill Blvd. from the Greenwich dead-end for vehicles: 31

Across Telegraph Hill Blvd. and into Pioneer Park: 32 thru 35

At the east side of the Coit Tower parking lot, Greenwich descends to Montgomery: 36 thru 49

Julius’ Castle: 50

Crossing Montgomery, Greenwich stairs continue to Sansome: 51 thru 75

This is new since my last visit — garden tiers alongside the steps at the top of the last flight: 76 thru 79

Continuing to the foot: 80, 81, 82

Downhill on Sansome — Jackson Square: 83, 84, 85

1 Joice stairway, Pine St,

2 Nob Hilll

3 An altar on the landing has been here many years

4 Looking down, Pine St.

6 Wall at the top

7 Joice continues

8 Joice continuing north

9 A Chinatown alley

12 A Chinatown mural

15 Chinatown wall map

21 Nobles off Grant

22 Nobles

23 Filbert up from Grant

24 Upper Grant

25 Greenwich south sidewalk above Grant

26 Greenwich south sidewalk

27 Greenwich south side-steps

31 Steps up to Telegraph Hill Blvd. from Greenwich west dead-end for vehicles

32 Into Pioneer Park

33 Telegraph Hill Blvd. below

34 Pioneer Park

36 Greenwich east steps descend from Coit Tower parking lot

39 Walk between Greenwich and Filbert steps

46 Down to Montgomery

50 Julius' CCastle at Montgomery & Greenwich

51 Greenwich steps continue down from Montgomery here

54 Looking back up

64 Looking back

75 Top of last flight down to Sansome

77 Since my last visit

82 Foot of Greenwich wast

83 Jackson Square buildings

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Four East

11/5/2019

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This Land’s End hike was clear, fogless, not too hot. Circling around.

First overlook just off 48th Ave. at El Camino del Mar with 42 steps down to the lower parking lot: 1, 2, 3

Looking west from the Land’s End Lookout area at the lower parking lot overlook: 4, 5

This first staircount is 126. descending to a trail that climbs to the cavetop viewspot: 6 thru 18

Atop the cave: 19 thru 41

The third staircount is 143 — the west beginning of the Coastal Trail: 42 thru 63

Continuing uphill east: 64, 65

Coastal Trail from the first overlook to just past the second: 66 thru 74

A trail that winds o the El Camino del Mar Trail: 75

El Camino del Mar Trail out to the upper parking lot overlook: 76 thru 79

Upper parking lot overlook and the 59 steps between overlooks: 80 thru 87