April 7, 1996: Mt. Tamalpais State Park

Down the Steep Ravine Trail

See also pp. 155-157 in Spitz, Barry, Tamalpais Trails, San Anselmo: Potrero Meadow Publishing Co., 1995 (3rd ed.); and pp. 80-82 in Whitnah, Dorothy L., An Outdoor Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley: Wilderness Press, 1984 (4th ed.).

Hiking directions are as given on March 10, 1996. The day -- at least in the ravine -- was much brighter than on the previous hike, and while, as I suggested before, sunlight gets into the ravine only with difficulty, it was bright enough that everything in the ravine was suffused with a light, bright green color.

Webb Creek was a bit lower than it had been in early March, but still in spate.

Leaving the ravine and coming up over the hills above Stinson Beach, though, we entered a dense fog, a foretaste of the summertime stratus that dominates the coast of north central California from spring through autumn.

Don Harlow

Check out the map given in the hike of March 10, 1996.

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