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Old Posted Dec 2, 2009, 9:13 AM
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San Francisco From Mt Diablo
About an hour's drive from DT San Francisco, Mt Diablo rises 3,864 ft above sea level and is the tallest mountain in the East Bay.

First for perspective.
Mt Diablo is the highest peak located in the upper center of this pic taken by trexcali at flickr

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2273/...51e9529a_o.jpg

Anyway, that's a stunning but very famous view. What caught my eye was these pics I came across of the view from Mt Diablo taken by craigiest at flickr.

The view from the top of Mt Diablo looking west at San Francisco. The small town in the middle of the picture is Moraga, a bedroom community and immediately at the top of the ridge behind Moraga is Oakland's Montclair District.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3594/...dc0efc34_b.jpg

Panning south...
The pristine parklands of the East Bay shield the interior valleys of NIMBYdom from the "onslaught" of development that awaits just at the other side of the crest. Actually much of the forestlands in this pic are actually within Oakland city limits.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/...2b58ab81_b.jpg

Panning back north
The high hill right at the ridge looks like the Grizzly Peak area which is the border of Oakland and Berkeley on the other side of the ridge. The sprawling town you see in the almost rural looking area below is Orinda, another swank town that has a BART station and provides a place for fencesitters(I want to be near urbanity, but would love to live in a treehouse. LOL). Beyond the crest we see the Golden Gate Bridge and the channel its named for as it opens to the Pacific Ocean.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/...8c717eba_b.jpg

Anywho...hope you guys(and/or gals) like em.
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Wow that first pic is awesome!
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I've always wondered what the view would be from atop that mountain. Thanks!
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Great find dimondpark, those hills are so golden in summer and so lush and green in winter.
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Cool find, dimond! Did you happen to notice the date those were taken? I'm wondering if it was this past Saturday as I was up in Redwood Regional Park (for those not familiar with it, right in the middle of that forested area in the "panning south" shot) that day and the views from Skyline and Joaquin Miller were just that spectacular. It was one of those epically clear days.
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Gorgeous finds!
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Unique. On a really clear day you can probably see the Farallons from up there...
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Wow! I've been up there several times and never had visability good enough to see the city that clearly. Thanks for sharing this!
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Unique. On a really clear day you can probably see the Farallons from up there...
I looked closely in the GGB shot to see if you could. Perhaps with the naked eye or binoculars it was possible that day.
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Incredible. Thanks a lot.
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Road to the Mt. Diablo summit this morning:


Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BAMB1B0B19.DTL
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Road to the Mt. Diablo summit this morning:


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I couldn't believe that snow levels were down to just 350ft!
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Here's a shot of Mt. Diablo I took from my balcony on 12/09:


The brownish hills in the middle are part of Walnut Creek's Shell Ridge Open Space, on the morning after the storm they had a dusting of snow, which I had never seen before.
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The Bay Area is simply stunning.
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Very nice!
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Cool. I've never seen that view before and always wondered about it.
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