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  1. Heads down catching up on old projects, but had to share one from almost exactly a year ago: Pillar Rock viewed between the bluffs just north of Cape Meares on the Central Oregon coast, west of Tillamook. I'm thinking this cove must have a name; anyone know?

    #PNW #Walking #Hiking #Trails #TrailPhotography #Oregon #CapeMeares #PacificOcean

  2. Finally felt well enough to do some walking between medical appointments, and explored this delightful rail line parallel to Winchester Avenue in Campbell. Although well maintained, its only use had been to supply fuel a few times a week to the Lehigh Cement Plant in Cupertino, which suspended operations in 2020. Now that the plant is closing, I suspect this line will be abandoned entirely.

    The surprising part is how the track is paralleled by an urban trail. Normally, walking along a railroad track is illegal: it's considered “trespassing on a railroad right of way.” But this “illegal” path even has professionally placed paving stones at the entrance and exit of the trestle crossing CA-85.

    #Walking #Pathways #UrbanTrails #Trains #Autumn #Trails #TrailPhotography

  3. Prickly Pear Cactus, upriver from Parker, Arizona.

    A lot of desert mountain was blasted to build “the bypass,” a highway to route impatient drivers around the congested area paralleling the Colorado River. There are many wide places you can safely park a car, scale the man-made cliff face, and take a short walk to find vast desert vistas that most of the people below don't know exist.

    #Pathways #Walking #TrailPhoto #TrailPhotography #Hiking #Arizona #PricklyPear

  4. @enog I love lighthouses. But West Coast lighthouses have a “problem”: they're always in beautiful and interesting places, and I get distracted. 😄 We were planning to visit this lighthouse at Point Arena and then continue to Mendocino, but spent 3+ hours exploring Stornetta and never got to Mendocino. 🤷‍♂️

    #Pathways #Walking #TrailPhoto #TrailPhotography #Hiking #California #PointArena

  5. Stornetta Public Lands, California

    The bluffs at Stornetta were once coastal seafloor that was uplifted by the movement of the Pacific Plate millions of years ago to form a terrace. The sides of the terrace eroded and collapsed over time to form the bluffs seen today. The top of the bluffs looks and feels like poured concrete.

    #Pathways #Walking #TrailPhoto #TrailPhotography #Hiking #California #PointArena

  6. Bear Gulch Reservoir, Pinnacles National Park, California

    Pinnacles is the western half of an ancient volcano that once straddled the San Andreas fault. There is a system of caves under the mountain, but they were only open in dry years and I can only recall exploring them once. But that was 30 years ago, 20 years before “drought” became part of our new normal. I'm curious what happened to those caves and this tiny reservoir those years, and what it looks like now after our record rainfall.

    #Pathways #Walking #TrailPhoto #TrailPhotography #Hiking #California #PinnaclesNationalPark

  7. Bear Valley Trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, California

    Point Reyes is remarkably biodiverse, due not only to its proximity to the Pacific coast, but also being bisected by the San Andreas Fault. The geology of western Point Reyes is identical to that of the Tehachapi Mountains, 310 miles to the south; and it's not a coincidence.

    #Pathways #Walking #TrailPhoto #TrailPhotography #Hiking #California #NationalParks #PointReyes