Hiking Lower Stevens Creek Mar 18 2009 - elf1's Photos

I hiked a brisk 4 miles with the Sierra Club Wednesday night group along the Lower Stevens Creek Trail from Mountain View towards Shoreline. We started at 6:10 and wanted to be back at the cars by dark (sunset at 7:20), so it wasn't an extremely long hike.

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elf1 > I'm always looking for broad expanses of grass that we could commandeer for agility trials, and our starting location--through Whisman Park--had lots of grass...but not exactly suitable for agility, unless you wanted to try some EXtreme Agility (think EXtreme Croquet).

elf1 > Saw lots of flowers; spring is here for sure! Fremontodendron, a California native, has spectacular palm-sized yellow flowers.

elf1 > The trail started near Highway 85 where it intersects 101, one of the most appallingly congested intersections in the Bay Area. Construction is still going on of assorted overpasses. It's been years.

elf1 > The trail was an easy, level, paved surface.

elf1 > Here's some of what we saw of Stevens Creek. Lots of water because it's spring and it rained quite a bit a couple of weeks back. This section was nice--lots of birds, trees, like that.

elf1 > But a lot of the creek also looked like this--the OLD school thought on how to manage flooding and erosion.

elf1 > Flowers flowers everywhere. Mostly blooming shrubbery; this is Ribes sanguineum (Flowering Currant; thanks FreeRangeTurtle for that info).

elf1 > This ceanothus is another California native. There are probably hundreds of species of ceanothus ("see-a-NO-thus").

elf1 > Left my beasts at home because the latter part of the hike was into Shoreline, which doesn't allow them even on leashes. But another hiker showed up with his dog, a Border Collie Maybe named Kelly, so we ended up doing some creative detouring.

I'm always looking for broad expanses of grass that we could commandeer for agility trials, and our starting location--through Whisman Park--had lots of grass...but not exactly suitable for agility, unless you wanted to try some EXtreme Agility (think EXtreme Croquet).

> I'm always looking for broad expanses of grass that we could commandeer for agility trials, and our starting location--through Whisman Park--had lots of grass...but not exactly suitable for agility, unless you wanted to try some EXtreme Agility (think EXtreme Croquet).

I'm always looking for broad expanses of grass that we could commandeer for agility trials, and our starting location--through Whisman Park--had lots of grass...but not exactly suitable for agility, unless you wanted to try some EXtreme Agility (think EXtreme Croquet).

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