So what’s Mountain Lake’s east side gonna look like when all the work is done in the area? New fencing was being built last time I did an around-the-lake stroll. New benches to replace the old ones? Very tame, this guy, a muscovy duck: first pic.
Above the Park Trail on the Bay Area Ridge Trail, past the Cemetery Overlook’s south entrance and onto the trail above Arguello where I happened upon two new art installations near the Spire. Didn’t know in advance where they’d be. Love outdoor artworks, especially unexpected sightings like this. As in a good hike anyway, and then something new and different along a familiar oft-traveled trail. Pix 2, 3; quoting below from:
http://www.presidio.gov/explore/Pages/Picturing-the-Presidio.aspx
“Picturing the Presidio is a multi-faceted public art installation by photographer Lyle Gomes, presented in partnership with the Presidio Trust …
For more than two decades, Gomes has captured emotive black and white images of the Presidio during a period of great transformation. Picturing the Presidio displays eight of his panoramic works along the trails where they were originally made, enabling viewers to consider the past, present, and future of key forest landscapes …
He began photographing the Presidio while it was still a military post. In 1994, amid the Presidio’s transition from post to park, he created The Presidio: a City Woodland, an exhibit of 48 images displayed at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography. Two decades later, he is returning to this subject through the Picturing the Presidio exhibit.”
Now I gotta keep an eye out for the other six.
Construction has finally been completed at the Pacific Overlook on Lincoln near Fort Scott. One can see part of the east Batteries to Bluffs Trail below from here, pix 4, 5, 6
Some recent stairway pix:
-- Continuing with Batteries to Bluffs pix (around 473 steps), below Lincoln: pix 7 thru 14. The Marshall's Beach Trail descends from the main Batteries to Bluffs with an additional 49 or so steps.
-- The now green Connector Trail, 208 steps. Lincoln up to Immigrant Point Overlook: 15 thru 25.
-- Marine Cemetery Vista Overlook with its high-backed benches, boardwalk and stairway, Mountain Lake Trail out to Battery Caulfield Road, around 103 steps: pic 26.
-- 69 wood steps connect from El Polin Spring to the upper Ecology Trail: 27, 28, 29.
-- From the trail up to Inspiration Point Overlook: 45 curvy older wood steps, last two pics.
1. Muscovy Duck, Mountain Lake
2. Bay Area Ridge Trail: "Footpath 2009"
3. Bay Area Ridge Trail: "Trail Fork 1990"
4. Batteries to Bluffs east trailhead in distance, center
5. From Pacific Overlook: Batteries to Bluffs east, right. View Point center.
6. Batteries to Bluffs east, center, from Pacific Overlook
7. Batteries to Bluffs east trailhead
8. Marshall's Beach Trail below
9. Marshall's Beach steps
10. Down to Marshall's Beach from Batteries to Bluffs Trail
11. Westside steps as seen from the footbridge
12. Up the west side
13. Batteries to Bluffs west
14. Nearing the top at Battery Crosby
15. Connector Trail from Lincoln up to Immigrant Point Overlook
16. Connector Trail starts up
17. Connector Trail's footbridge. Bench to left.
18. Across Lincoln below is trailhead for Sand Ladder to Baker Beach. Batteries to Bluffs trailhead right.
19. The trails are now photogenically green
20. Connector Trail up to Immigrant Point Overlook and Rob Hill Campground
21. 208 steps
22. Connector Trail continues up
23. Nearing the top
24. Top of the Connector Trail at Immigrant Point Overlook
25. Trailsign for the Connector at Immigrant Point Overlook
26. Steps to boardwalk and Marine Cemetery Vista Overlook
27. El Polin Spring to upper Ecology Trail
28. Down to El Polin Spring from upper Ecology Trail
29. Out to Ecology Trail
30. Upper Ecology Trail up to Inspiration Point Overlook
31. To Ecology Trail from Inspiration Point Overlook, off Arguello Blvd.
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