Sant Cruz Mountains
From Big Basin Redwoods State Park. October, 2007
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Light and Steam at Big Basin
near the Redwood Loop.
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Big Basin Redwoods
on either side of "Highway" 236.
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Light filtering through Big Basin
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Chimney Tree
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Clara in Chimney Tree
The tallest tree in the park is 329 feet tall! (This is not it.)
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Us in Chimney Tree
The park's oldest trees were growing whilst Christ and Euclid roamed the...
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Banana Slug!
We saw over a dozen of these cutehearts during our day at Big Basin....
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View on trail to Buzzard's Roost
We hiked the Pine Mountain Trail, through these woods, above them, and up to...
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Clara at Buzzard's Roost
We saw not a buzzard, but the scrambling was fun and the views grand.
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Clara Triumphant
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Buzzard's Roost
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View from Buzzard's Roost
We could actually see the ocean from here, but this is not depicted in the...
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Us!
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Again
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Redwoods of Big Basin
After Buzzard's Roost, we took a leisurely hike along the Creeping Forest...
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Daniel for scale
We saw one tree, the Mother of the Forest, whose girth is 70 feet! She...
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Life after Death
Here a new redwood grows from a fallen one.
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Fire!
Unable to book a campsite at Big Basin, we camped at Henry Cowell...
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Pescadero State Beach
In Pescadero, off Highway 1. Pescadero is located between Santa Cruz and San...
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Marine Mammal's Punum!
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Marine mammal's punum again!
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