| Hike Notes |
| #45 Day Hikes in San Luis Obispo County, California - Robert Stone |
| Technu is recommended for poison oak. |
| The SloMansion has 9 rooms and a nifty website. |
| Before heading up the canyon, backtrack to the waterfall. |
| The 'horsetail' has been around for a 100 million years! |
| Perhaps thousands of years old, they challenge the Sequoia as the oldest living thing. |
| Their roots go down 10 feet to the bedrock. |
| Under the waterfall,a manmade cave had pipes pumping water to the city. |
| Above the waterfall was a working reservoir till the 1960's and a lake till the 1980's. |
| Cross 2 footbridges - blackberries, wild rose |
| Notice the outcrops of the green, metamorphic rock, serpentine. |
| Part of the Franciscan Formation formed as the oceanic plate dove under the continent. |
| Too much magnesium results in the 'barrens'. Notice the yucca fields, however. |
| Look for the serpentine barrens in the South Hills. |
| California's State Rock! |
| Honeysuckle, Black Sage (highly flammable), Christmas Berry |
| California Laurel Tree has much stronger bay leaves than the European kind. |
| As a wreathe it can be used as an insect repellent (vs meal worms in flour also?) |