Back for another Glen Canyon hike to see if all the new stairways might now be walkable. Nothing but praise for the new, completed long one (184 steps) that descends curvingly from Crags Court Garden in the Diamond Heights neighborhood. It winds around to eventually end up at the main trail down below. First two pix, near the foot.
Started up another new one just before the old wood boardwalk begins, but there were only 18 steps, then a trail. No more steps seen so back down this time. Maybe more steps planned higher up? Pic 3.
The footbridge over Islais Creek just after the boardwalk, pic 4. It used to have two sides.
A couple of pix of what one of the newer stairways used to look like in 2004 and 2005 as rustic logs. Now there are 61 steps; it still has that black fencing around it as of this writing. At least it was open again; last time it was blocked off. THENS, pix 5, 6, and NOWS, 7, 8.
On to do the 79 newer steps to the uppermost trail that’s just below Christopher Park in Diamond Heights: 9, 10, 11.
South on this short, shady trail to check the main steps down from Christopher Park. Still unfinished though there’d been the addition of one short section of new stairway surrounded by one of those orange flexibarriers. 15 steps to our beloved viewbench with 49 (so far) down to the dirt trail that leads to the present orange fencing: 12 thru 18.
Well you can’t say I don’t keep checking. It’d be nice to see an online sketch of what’s planned for this park.
Started up another new one just before the old wood boardwalk begins, but there were only 18 steps, then a trail. No more steps seen so back down this time. Maybe more steps planned higher up? Pic 3.
The footbridge over Islais Creek just after the boardwalk, pic 4. It used to have two sides.
A couple of pix of what one of the newer stairways used to look like in 2004 and 2005 as rustic logs. Now there are 61 steps; it still has that black fencing around it as of this writing. At least it was open again; last time it was blocked off. THENS, pix 5, 6, and NOWS, 7, 8.
On to do the 79 newer steps to the uppermost trail that’s just below Christopher Park in Diamond Heights: 9, 10, 11.
South on this short, shady trail to check the main steps down from Christopher Park. Still unfinished though there’d been the addition of one short section of new stairway surrounded by one of those orange flexibarriers. 15 steps to our beloved viewbench with 49 (so far) down to the dirt trail that leads to the present orange fencing: 12 thru 18.
Well you can’t say I don’t keep checking. It’d be nice to see an online sketch of what’s planned for this park.
1. 184 new steps down from Crags Court Garden in Diamond Heights
2. Near the foot of the new long stairway down from the Diamond Heights neighborhood
3. Up from the boardwalk
4. The footbridge over Islais Creek
5. This is a THEN pic from 2004. Log steps up from the Canyon floor.
6. Another THEN. This is from Laura Glatstein's Stairway Walks of 2005.
7. This is a NOW of the same area, now sturdy wood instead of logs
8. On the south side of the climbing rocks
9. The sausage-looking things above the steps are called straw wattles
10. 79 steps to uppermost Canyon trail just below Christopher Park
11. Another way up on the east side
12. Down from the edge of Christopher Park in Diamond Heights
13. Mount Davidson across the Canyon
14. Steps descend from the edge of Christopher Park
15. Diamond Heights to right
16. Steps to south of the bench lead to the Crags Court stairway
17. Canyontop view to the west
18. The orange fencing surrounds a new unfinished section of stairs
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