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Labor Day weekend bike tour in Mount Tamalpais State Park and visit to Muir Woods National Monument a few miles Northwest of the Golden Gate.

  • View of Graywhale Cove State Beach
  • View of Graywhale Cove State Beach
  • The stairs down to the beach
  • Thomas hunting for good pictures.
  • My first starfish!
  • The view on one of the hills of Mount Tamalpais State Park close to the West Ridgecrest Blvd.
  • You can actually see the tree under which this photo was taken on the satellite image if you open the location map below!
  • Once again two Swiss people have "climbed" a "mountain".
  • Nice view of the coast from where we had lunch, at the Muir Beach Overlook.
  • If you look closely, you can actually see the bike trail (it's called Coastal Fire Road) that starts right of the road and that we went up.
  • View back down towards where we started our uphill bike ride.
  • At the entry to Muir Woods National Monument. This tree was more than a thousand years old before it fell in 1930. If you click the 'Original size' link below, you can actually see at which point in time events like Columbus discovering America or the California Gold Rush took place.
  • One of the amazingly large Redwood trees in Muir Woods National Monument.
  • What!? You can catch splinters by touching wood? Why hasn't anyone told me before, this wood stuff is a hazard!