I was hoping to follow up my Manhattan Photo Walk with one of the SF Crosstown Trail. In April, I walked the Crosstown Trail with some friends, but unfortunately I loaded the roll incorrectly in the camera so there were zero film photos from that walk.
Last Thursday I aimed to redeem myself by doing the Double Cross Trail, the Crosstown Trail’s counterpart on the other diagonal. I loaded a roll of Ektar 100 again into my M3, and as we can see from the photos below, did in fact redeem myself.
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month and SF definitely shows up for it! Rainbow flags were all over the city and the pink triangle installation on Twin Peaks was easy to spot throughout the walk.
Photos
A downside of checking that the film roll was loaded correctly was exposing it a bit too much. One photo before this was almost unusable but this one is on the charming side of messy
Ironically, the Harvey Milk Photo Center only does black and white printing, so this roll couldn’t be developed or printed there
Peep the pink triangle on the hill!
This quick snapshot of Sutro Tower through the clouds ended up being my favorite of the batch!
After I finished the “trail” part of the photo walk, I had a few shots on the roll left, so I snapped a few things in the Castro on the way to Photoworks to drop off the film.
Path
The Double Cross Trail nominally starts at Fort Funston in the southwest and then ends at Pier 23 on the northeast.
To fit into my morning better, I chose to do it “backwards” and start at Pier 23 and then did about half the trail. One of my friends lives near Sutro Tower, so I detoured from the official Crosstown Trail to visit him and walk a little hourlong loop in the Mount Sutro Open Space reserve. After that, I walked over to the Forest Hill MUNI station and hopped on the light rail to drop off the film and head home.
According to my Garmin, this route clocked in at 10.6mi and 25,010 steps in 5hr3min.
Having done at least this part, I can confirm that the Crosstown trail is big on parks and green spaces and you can almost forget you’re in a city, while the Double Cross Trail is definitely more of a city walk, much more similar to the Manhattan one. I wouldn’t say one is necessarily better, they’re just different style.
