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Hike Friday

12/1/2013

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First, passing on news about a Stairway Event next weekend that I just found out about:

The Hidden Garden Steps mosaic in Golden Gate Heights is now ready to walk and they're having a celebration December 7, Saturday, 12 to 4. It's to be a closed-to-traffic block party on 16th Ave. between Judah and Kirkham. So now a second long tiled stairway (148 steps) that's just a few blocks from the famous Moraga/16th Ave. tiled steps (completed 2005, 163 steps). For details, check out these links:

www.hiddengardensteps.org

and their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/187719081418823

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Other than special events, I've never seen so many people at Lands End as on "Black Friday." And all the pooches … this could've been Fort Funston. Fog out over the water but sunny in the park.  


First stairway of the day: Down from the lower parking lot overlook (126, pix 1 through 5), then up the trail from its foot to the cavetop viewspot (pic 6). The west trailhead for the Coastal Trail/Lands End Trail starts here: 141 steps (pics 7 through 12). AKA Sutro Baths Upper Trail.


Continued past the two main trail overlooks to the Mile Rock Beach stairs: 269 or thereabouts, the park's longest stairway (pics 13 through 17). 


When you can tear yourself away from the rocky beach (pics 18, 19, 20), you can either climb trails to the "Labyrinth" atop the cliff viewplace (pics 21, 22, 23) or ascend the stairs back to the main Lands End Trail. 


Since construction is ongoing for Eagles' Point at the park's east trailhead, turned back and up a short forested trail to the El Camino del Mar Trail. Out to the upper parking lot overlook past the top of the steep connector stairs here (about 59, last pic).  


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1. Stairway from top of lower parking lot overlook. Sutro Bath ruins below.
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2. Near top of the stairs
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3. Continuing down
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4. Foot of the stairway
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5. Lands End Lookout in distance
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6. View from west trailhead for Lands End Trail
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7. West trailhead for Coastal Trail/Lands End Trail/Sutro Baths Upper Trail
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8. Cavetop Viewspot below
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9. Continuing up
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10. 141 Steps
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11. A view down
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12. A don't-go-there sign off the stairway
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13. Down from the main Lands End/Coastal Trail
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14. Down to Mile Rock Beach
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15. Turn left to continue down the stairs; straight ahead to the clifftop viewspot and Labyrinth
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16. Under this tree on the way down
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17. Another way up to the viewplace, left. Shady stairway to right continues down.
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18. Mile Rock Beach below
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19. Foot of stairway to left
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20. Sand and rocks
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21. Trails up to the viewspot
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22. Above Mile Rock Beach
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23. Above Mile Rock Beach
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24. Upper parking lot overlook stairway down to Lands End Trail
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