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And then on Monday afternoon after brunch with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} steluch and ca_snowflake I got in some walking on the north and east slopes of Bernal Heights. 9.4 miles of walking, 7.4 unique. Updated map and GPS map.There is a large section of brick pavement at the corner of Lundys and Fair. There is a wooden sidewalk on Mullen between Montcalm and Rutledge. Mayflower is mostly dirt paths, and an unmapped path continues from it below Bernal Heights Boulevard to Nevada. Near Nevada there are new steps from the path to the boulevard, and it looks like the half block of Nevada below Chapman is being paved. An embossed sign for Faith Street is still visible but in private hands. Visible life is concentrated in and around Precita Park. I counted the two levels of Precita separately where it splits around the park. In local politics, signs hanging up near Precita are about efforts to humanize Cesar Chavez Street. Signs hanging up on the east slope are about trying to stop infill development, supposedly just until the streets are made more accessible to fire trucks. There is no sign of Eve Street, if it ever existed. (Adam Street, if it ever existed, is buried by the freeway.) I looked for Esmerelda west from Holladay, and there is a vacant hillside lot that may contain it, but it is not clear what part of it, if any, is the street. Unnamed 186 is a ramp and staircase up to a small park. Crossing under the freeway on Cesar Chavez Street is pretty miserable. Faith Street once crossed under the freeway through the Morris Olson Tunnel, which must have been terrifying. Today the east portal of the tunnel is still visible but bricked over, and there is a pedestrian bridge instead. | ||||||||||
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