Botanizing California: Mount Vision May 16, 2010

One of the high points on rugged Inverness Ridge, Mount Vision is aptly named for its stunning views of the Point Reyes Peninsula. Its luxuriant vegetation includes a dense Bishop pine understory (both new forests and old) as well as coastal scrub, coastal prairie, and streamside vegetation, all with their own special floras. Because of summer fog drip, plants often associated with lush redwood forests occur here, including huckleberries, trilliums, violets, salal, Douglas iris, and California wax-myrtle. Our semi-strenuous loop hike of 5 to 6 miles will take us down into Muddy Hollow near Limantour Beach and back up again to Inverness Ridge .