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12/7/2015

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The Presidio’s new Battery East Overlook is just east of the Bridge. 

Nice design with several benches. This’ll be a choice spot to view the next Fleet Week/Blue Angels. First 6 pix

To one side is a parking lot. Not someplace I’d like to be anywhere near myself but convenient for drivers. Look forward to seeing whatever they’ve planted under all that netting. 
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I like looking down to the trail below. Pic 7

Battery East Trail and 153 steps down to Crissy Field: 8 thru 11

Bridgeviewing area:  12, 13, 14

Now for the west side of the Bridge. Even more recently completed, a walkers’ bridge with a wood floor.

Under the GG Bridge to the west, the old trail has been widened and you'll see erosion-control straw wattles.
 

Found several old pix of this part of the Coastal Trail from 2009 and 2010: just under the Bridge until right before the few steps to the top of the battery. THENs and NOWs: 15 thru 22

Used to take the steps down from the trail here some years ago to the foot of this old battery. Then they closed off the bottom part so one couldn’t continue straight down the stairs. So you'd then continue along the side of the battery to descend its main steps for the trail at the foot. 

The old steps are still blocked off at the foot. You'll still walk alongside the old battery, now with a few new steps, and down its main stairs to continue west on the trail - and up fo the Golden Gate Overlook: 23 the 35

The new walkers’ bridge, pix 36 thru 44, crosses you from the top of the old battery to the other side where there’s a parking lot. The parking lot’s east end is just behind the second bridge-bus shelter for the #28. 

There was still work ongoing with some fencing and signs but a small opening let me thru to the GG Overlook: 

The slopes across from the batteries are covered with more straw wattles.

The Batteries to Bluffs (473 or so steps) east trailhead is a few blocks from here: 45 thru 48


Up and over Rob Hill we go. The Connector Trail (208 steps) that ascends from Lincoln to Immigrant Point Overlook is starting to show some green now: 49 thru 55


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1. Battery East Overlook
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2. Just east of the bridge
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3. The Presidio's newest overlook
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4. Long benches
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5. History infusigns
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6. Battery East Trail below
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7. Going back down now
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8. Battery East Trail
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9. Battery East stairs
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10. Fort Point to left, Crissy Field to right
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11. 153 steps
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12. A few steps added here
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13. Down this way to picnic area and low-overhead tunnel
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14. More additions to the view-area in the last few ears
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15.. THEN: Coastal Trail 2009
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16. THEN: Coastal Trail 2010
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17. THEN: Coastal Trail 2010
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18. THEN: Coastal TraIl 2010
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19. THEN: Coastal Trail 2010
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20. THEN: Coastal Trail 2010. Almost up to top of battery.
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21. NOW: Widened trail
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22. NOW: Up to top of battery
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23. New steps at top of battery
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24. Replacement steps
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25. Bottom part of old battery steps still blocked off
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26. Turn alongside the battery
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27. Replacement stairs for this old battery
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28. The new walkers' bridge to the left
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29. New battery steps continue to main battery stairway
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30. New side steps and the bridge
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31. Down the main battery steps to the trail below
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32. Descending to the trail
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33. The trail will take you to the Golden Gate Overlook
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34. Foot of the battery now with trail infosign
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35. Batery bottom
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36. Near Golden Gate Overlook
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37. Able to get through
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38. Up to Golden Gate Overlook
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39. Looking west from the new bridge
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40. Looking east down from the bridge
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41 Crossover to parking lot
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42. South to North
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43. New steps out to the parking lot
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44. Trail iufosign added
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45. Batteries to Bluffs east
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46. Down the east side
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47. Below, center, Marshall's Beach Trail
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48. Marshall's Beach trailhead lower left
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49. To left out to Baker Beach Apts. and Presidio Forest
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50. Lincoln to Immigrant Point Overlook and Rob Hill Campground
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51. Note the green starting to show up after the rains
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52. 208 steps
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53. Climbing and winding thru the trees
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54. Rob Hill is the park's highest elevation
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55. Step out to Immigrant Point,Overlook, upper right
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