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Soon the trail makes a sharp right-hand switchback and begins to climb. Where the Fern Creek Trail continues straight across a plank bridge nailed to a fallen redwood, at about 1 mile, you go straight on the Lost Trail. After a set of wooden steps, the trail bends left, still rising on a moderate grade. A dramatic change in vegetation marks a transition out of the redwood forest and into the realm of Douglas-fir, canyon oak, and fragrant California bay.

After following a winding course, the trail meets the Ocean View Trail at a T-junction. Turn left and continue climbing on a long, steady grade that changes from gentle to moderate. From the base of a large boulder, a rough path leads uphill and right, but your route curves left, then straightens. After a rising traverse across a steep, open hillside that drops left, you come to a four-way junction.

Tourist Club, with Bavarian-style architecture, is on the Redwood Trail, east of Muir Woods.

Turn right onto the Panoramic Trail, which heads southeast just beneath Panoramic Highway. Coming around a bend, you pass a rough path, right, and a trail merging sharply from the left — both unsigned. Ahead, at a signed fork, you veer right on the Redwood Trail and descend. After passing a wet area and negotiating a steep, rocky downhill pitch, you are back among the redwoods, which are smaller, though, than the giants beside Redwood Creek.