The Ring Mountain loop is as close as you can get to a perfect springtime hike. The beautiful stretches and spots of wildflowers make it one of Marin’s top wildflower hikes. The views are equ…
The Ring Mountain loop is as close as you can get to a perfect springtime hike. The beautiful stretches and spots of wildflowers make it one of Marin’s top wildflower hikes. The views are equally superb — surprisingly so, since the top elevation is a relatively modest 600 feet. Yet the panoramic sweep and the close intimacy provided by the lower elevation make the views particularly enticing. When the views and profuse wildflowers combine — as they do in a few places — it is awesome.
Upslope, we enter small islands of trees and see a fantastically shaped large tree with no life left in it. Still climbing, sometimes more steeply, we reach the top of the ridge and look down on a solitary boulder landmark called Turtle Rock. Blasphemously, I must admit that it never has resembled a turtle to me. Walk down to examine it or snack or lunch by it, if you wish, and return to continue our hike.
Along this path from late May into June, you can see an astonishing flower, the Tiburon mariposa lily. Throughout the world, it exists only here.
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