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January Batteries to Bluffs

1/25/2015

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To welcome the New Year, my usual three-stairway Presidio route: First, the Batteries to Bluffs Trail, then the Connector Trail up to Immigrant Point Overlook, and finally heading east from Battery Caulfield Road up the Marine Cemetery Vista Trail.

This time starting out from the second bridge area stop for the #28. From here a few blocks to the Batteries to Bluffs east trailhead. East to west up to Lincoln: about 472 steps, pix 1 thru 16. 

Crossing Lincoln (pic 17) to the Connector Trail (208 steps, now super-photogenically green alongside) up to Immigrant Point Overlook: 18 thru 29. 

Then downhill on Battery Caulfield. Crossing at the construction site of the future nursery school and up the trail for the Marine Cemetery Vista Overlook just behind and above the Presidio Landmark residences. Counting the stepped boardwalk, about 103 steps for this one: 30 thru 36. 

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1. East Batteries to Bluffs trailhead
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2. View Point, about 130 steps along
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3. About 472 steps
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4. Midtrail
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5. Trail down to Marshall's Beach, about 49 steps
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6. Up to the footbridge
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7. Starting up the westside
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8. Green on both sides now
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9. Oceanview
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10. San Francisco's longest stairway
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11. At first there were no railings
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12. Another view down from the westside
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13. Up to Battery Crosby
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14. Curving around
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15. Top of the stairs at Battery Crosby
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16. Trailhead at Lincoln for Batteries to Bluffs Trail
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17. Cross Lincoln for the Connector Trail
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18. Starting up the Connector Trail
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19. Into the Forest
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20. Up from Lincoln
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21. Straight ahead will take you out to a residential area
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22. Turn left at the trailsign
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23. This way up to Immigrant Point Overlook and Rob Hill Campground
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24. Climbing and winding around
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25. 208 steps
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26. Forest beauty
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27. The vehicle street at the top is Washington Blvd.
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28. Another highly recommended trail
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29. Top of the steps at Immigrant Point Overlook
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30. Merchant Marine Cemetery Overlook, 1881-1912, plaque/benches ahead, right
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31. Stepped boardwalk leads to a stairway
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32. Wyman Ave. and residences to right
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33. Down to Park Trail / Mountain Lake Trail
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34. To right from here, out of the park at 14th Ave.
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35. About 103 steps counting the stepped boardwalk
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36. Foot of the steps, part of Mountain Lake Trail
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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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