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Leaving the grotto behind, you merge with the trail that went straight at the blank trail post. About 75 feet ahead, you pass a trail on the right, and your route bends left. At a fork marked by a trail post, you bear left, pass marker 10, left, and continue winding your way uphill toward a grove of bay and coast live oak. When you reach the grove, turn right.

As you emerge from the grove, a fabulous scene greets you — the San Francisco skyline, the Marin Headlands, Sausalito, Richardson Bay, and the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. Before the glaciers melted at the end of the last Ice Age, San Francisco Bay and San Pablo bays, also visible from the mountain, were a river valley, and the coastline was 20 to 30 miles farther west. As you walk downhill, passing marker 11, right, the view improves, as Alcatraz and the Bay Bridge come into view.

About 75 feet past marker 11, you reach a four-way junction at the Taylor Ridge Fire Road, around the 1-mile point. Ahead is a short path leading to a boulder sometimes used by rock climbers for practice. Turning left onto the fire road, you begin to gain elevation as you near the mountain’s summit, a high point to the southeast.