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Passing a dirt-and-gravel road that joins from the left, you soon circle around the right side of a water tank and then reach a junction. Here the Hogback (Throckmorton) Trail continues steeply uphill, but your route, the single-track Matt Davis Trail, named for an early Mt. Tam trail builder and member of the Tamalpais Conservation Club, veers left and climbs a set of wooden steps.

Now you enter a brushy, overgrown area of trees and shrubs. These thickets soon give way to a forest of mostly tanbark oak and madrone. The trail now maintains a contour on the edge of a canyon, left. After a wet winter, this canyon, which holds Fern Creek, may be filled with rushing water, its sound a pleasant accompaniment to your footfalls. Coast redwoods rise from the canyon.

Soon you reach an unsigned junction, right, with the Hoo-Koo-E-Koo Trail. This odd name was bestowed by a member of the Tamalpais Conservation Club to honor an Indian tribe that was supposed to have lived nearby. Here you continue straight, and after about 150 feet reach a wood bridge that crosses Fern Creek. After crossing the bridge, you turn left and begin a moderate climb that soon eases and then levels. Areas of chaparral give you the chance to study plants such as chinquapin, manzanita, chaparral pea, yerba santa, and dwarf interior live oak.