& Hirschman Trail,
Nevada City
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Deer Creek Tribute Trail & Hirschman Trail, Nevada City |
May 8, 2022
I have brought my friend Eileen to a community in which I lived for six years altogether, about forty years ago. This rates to be an interestingly nostalgic outing.
Two newer trails lie right on the outskirts of downtown. We start by parking right in front of my former home on the main street. These guys are in a nearby garden:
Smokey Mariposa
Indian Azalea
A short mile down back streets and an old former highway gets us to the trailhead.
The new trail starts here
Winding slowly downhill toward the creek
A well-built and well-maintained route
The Angkula Seo Bridge
Deer Creek
What's this?
What fun!
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Winding slowly uphill
The doggies are in charge
Sewage treatment plant
I lived less than two miles from here for six years, yet never viewed that facility.
Dwarf Rose
Not the kind of rock art that we neglected to watch for
Annual Moonwort
Dogwood
Having a choice earlier, we opted to head back into town.
This probably was quite the place back in the day
When the mines were active, the owners and executives built their fancy homes here in Nevada City; whereas the working stiffs resided down the hill in nearby Grass Valley.
The Mayor or Jordan Street
A pedestrian-only walkway winds down some rickety wooden stairs to the bridge
So long to Deer Creek
This is the third FezzBox we have seen
We finish the walk among the main-street shops, stopping to talk to vendors and view the three sites of my own former shops.
A half-mile drive to the north begets the next trailhead.
Common Salsify -aka- Purple Goatsbeard
Scotch Broom
This place is all about the hydraulic gold-mining operation conducted right here about 150 years ago.
Blasting away the earth with water devastated the landscape
So where we are standing now was well underground earlier.
Hirschman's Pond
The trail continues; but rain is threatening, so we opt to turn back here.
Bear clover
Blackberry
Hydraulic mining monitor (nozzle)
This outing fittingly ends with a tribute to the king of the forest and my favorite tree variety:
Ponderosa Pine
§: Well, I got my dose of nostalgia, and Eileen got a good history
lesson. It seems, however, that we didn't do justice to the first trail;
for there was more to see downstream including a nice waterfall. We'll
check that out next time.
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