Stevens Creek and Fremont Older - Spring 2011

Jamshid and I went for a hike from the north (far) end of the Stevens Creek Reservoir. We parked at a little parking lot for a group picnic area. People had formed an extra line of parked cars along one side of the parking lot entrance road, so we joined the line.

We took the narrow trail up the hill up into Fremont Older, then arced around as much of upper part Fremont Older as we could without descending towards Hunter's Point. We stopped for lunch at the top of Nob Hill, and the view was OK, but not quite as encompassing as from Hunter's Point.

We then followed the ridge road down to the south end of the reservoir and returned along the narrow Stevens Creek Trail to the car.

We saw a deer. We did not see the second deer until I got home and zoomed in on this photo.

These looked like some sort of fishing bird with long necks and long bills, but they didn't cooperate for a photo.