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High Water: Stevens Creek Trail in Mountain View, 1/12/23 by Ronald Horii
After weeks of rain, I've been looking at local creeks and watching them rise rapidly, mostly Coyote Creek and the Guadalupe River. I was curious to see what Stevens Creek was like, so on 1/12/23, a rare dry day, I rode my bike on the Stevens Creek Trail, starting from its trailhead in Mountain View. I took it all the way to the Bay Trail in Shoreline Park. (That's covered in a separate album: Bay Trail: Mountain View to Palo Alto, Creeks and Birds, 1/12/23: https://tinyurl.com/yue5m695.) The last time I was on this part of the Stevens Creek Trail was in July, and I made this album:
Stevens Creek Trail to New Palo Alto Baylands Bridge, 7/10/22:
https://tinyurl.com/52r63azx. It was a lot dryer then. I have some pictures from that time for comparison purposes in this album. There are more pictures of the Stevens Creek Trail, Shoreline Park, and the Palo Alto Baylands on my Bay Trail pages: http://www.rhorii.com/index.html#baytrail. Here's my webpage on the Stevens Creek Trail: http://www.rhorii.com/StevensCrkTrl/StevensCrkTrl.html. Stevens Creek Trail information and maps: https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/shoreline/trails/stevens.asp. Stevens Creek Trail map: https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=30370. Friends of the Stevens Creek Trail: https://www.stevenscreektrail.org/.
After weeks of rain, I've been looking at local creeks and watching them rise rapidly, mostly Coyote Creek and the Guadalupe River. I was curious to see what Stevens Creek was like, so on 1/12/23, a rare dry day, I rode my bike on the Stevens Creek Trail, starting from its trailhead in Mountain View. I took it all the way to the Bay Trail in Shoreline Park. (That's covered in a separate album: Bay Trail: Mountain View to Palo Alto, Creeks and Birds, 1/12/23: https://tinyurl.com/yue5m695.) The last time I was on this part of the Stevens Creek Trail was in July, and I made this album:
Stevens Creek Trail to New Palo Alto Baylands Bridge, 7/10/22:
https://tinyurl.com/52r63azx. It was a lot dryer then. I have some pictures from that time for comparison purposes in this album. There are more pictures of the Stevens Creek Trail, Shoreline Park, and the Palo Alto Baylands on my Bay Trail pages: http://www.rhorii.com/index.html#baytrail. Here's my webpage on the Stevens Creek Trail: http://www.rhorii.com/StevensCrkTrl/StevensCrkTrl.html. Stevens Creek Trail information and maps: https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/shoreline/trails/stevens.asp. Stevens Creek Trail map: https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=30370. Friends of the Stevens Creek Trail: https://www.stevenscreektrail.org/.
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Alan Ross
Excellent overview of the creek and trail. I like how you provided the contrast pictures from July and the stream data.
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Teresa Pagano
Ty for sharing. I had hea they were working on trails around the Bay. I had no idea tey had such great trails in the south bay. New goal to see some of this. Thanks again.
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