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Hacking and Chopping

3/5/2018

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Upon reaching the top of the 62 Simonds Loop stone steps (Presidio east), what used to be surrounded by greenery was now more bare than I'd ever seen it. Including where I used to happily forage for blackberries. I can understand some maintenance is nexessary, but please, just not so much! 

It’s difficult these days to take a hike in this or other parks without coming across dead branches, bare tree stumps, herbicide-spraying notices, bare ground where there used to be beautiful green spaces, or workers actually doing the hacking and chopping at the time. 

Starting off at the Broadway Gate, enjoying the forest and view east: 1 thru 7

Into the Simonds Loop neighborhood and steps down to Lower Simonds Loop: 8 thru 11

Moving west: 12, 13, 14

Above El Polin Spring and out at Inspiration Point Overlook (off Arguello): 15 thru 31

Across Presidio Parkway from Mountain Lake (using the pedestrian underpass) and up to the Marine Cemetery Vista Overlook. 

Several years ago a stairway and boardwalk trail (103 steps counting the stepped boardwalk), benches, a plaque (“Home is the Sailor, Home from the Sea”), and a trail winding down to Battery Caulfield Road: 32 thru 53

Crossing at Battery Caulfield and into another forest (pix 54, 55, 56), at the foot of which you can access the Lobos Creek boardwalk trail that winds out to Lincoln/El Camino del Mar.

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1 Just inside the Broadway Gate
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2 A view east thru the trees
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8 62 steps
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9 Upper to Lower Simonds Loop
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11 Lower Simonds Loop
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14 Upper Lover's Lane
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15 Opening in Presidio Wall at Spruce into Julius Kahn Park
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16 Trail above El Polin Spring
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18 Ecology Trail
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23 Ecology Trail
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26 45 steps to Inspiration Point Overlook
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31 Park rangers
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32 Across Presidio Parkway from Mountain Lake
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33 Up to Mrine Cemetery Vista Overlook
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42 Pfftrail to the north
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48 Back on the MCV Trail again
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51 Counting the boardwalk steps, 103 total to the Marine Cemetery Vista Overlook
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52 Overlook bench
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53 Cross at the Battery Caulfield Rd. crosswalk
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    I like meandering around on San Francisco's park trails and public stairways, sometimes taking photos, and enjoying nature and the outdoors.

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