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The bike bell exchange uses a magnetic sheet to hold the bells in place at the trailhead
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Oats Peak Trail trailhead
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The trail has many humps in it. We saw this characteristic a lot on these trails. This helps keep water from streaming down the trail when it rains and gouging out a big rut.
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Mountain bikers on the trail above us
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Here we turned off onto the Reservour Flats Trail loop
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The two ends of the Reservoir Flats Trail come together.
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The lack of humps on this trail leads to this big rut
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A good place for lunch on the Reservoir Flats Trail
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From here you can see the multi-use Oats Peak Trail and the hiking-ony trail to Valencia Peak above it. That's Valencia Peak at the top. Can you see the mountain bikers on the trail?
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Zooming in, it's a lot easier to see the mountain bikers.
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You can see Oats Peak in the far distance (upper middle of photo).
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Islay Creek Rd on the other side of Isley Creek.
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We saw a lot of these signs. More recently built trail superceded the old routes.
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The next set of photos are taken from Oats Peak Trail. Here we can see Reservoir Flat Trail in the background. It's not really that flat!
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The connection between Reservoir Flats Trail and Islay Creek Rd.
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We saw lot of poison oak just off the edge of the trail. Most of it was more mature than this plant.
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The Beebe Trail splits off from the Oats Peak Trail
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We continued up towards Oats Peak
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A little mud on the trail here...
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... No wonder, a little stream runs across the trail.
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The Beebe Trail and the Valencia Peak Trail on the top of the ridge. You can see some people on the ridge near the right end.
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A closer look at the hikers on Valencia Peak Trail.
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Someone's at the top of Valencia Peak.
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Islay Creek Road below and to the north-east
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Bikers on the trail above us
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