TrailPhotos is a concept developed in the late 1990s before the advent of GPS photo tagging or online map mashups. The goal is to create trail guides based on color photos and maps that emphasize the scenes along trails, and their locations. TrailPhoto's current focus is the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay and the Sierra. The Flickr pages here show a sample of these photos from various adventures.

TrailPhotos are then combined with the maps to show trail routes and photo locations, and trail descriptions that are more summarized than the typical trail guidebook. Most trail guidebooks focus on text-heavy descriptions, and lack the rest of the story that is enriched by quality photos. TrailPhoto Guides instead emphasize the visual appeal of photography along the trail.

This approach does not try solely for golden hour, artistic landscape photos, but shows scenes along a trail during the course of the trip. Therefore some of the photos will be more plain, mid-day shots, with others shot during the early or late light magic hours.

Hope you enjoy these photo scenes and find some new areas to explore from this collection, and from the accompanying maps and trail descriptions available from the TrailPhotos.com website.