nature walk addendum

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From a web page I found while looking for something else:

Shoreline at Mountain View Park is a beautiful 700-acre park with a saltwater lake, golf course, rolling grassy hills, and bay trails. It's hard to believe it's built on mountains of trash. For 13 years, starting in 1968, 500 acres of the land near the bay was used here as a landfill for trash from the city of San Francisco. In 1983, Mountain View closed the dump and began turning it into a park. There are still active landfills just to the north in Palo Alto and to the south in Sunnyvale, but they will be turned into parks also someday.

Shoreline is the park I cut across toward the end of my Stevens Creek Trail walk, and also where we shot the press kit photos on Sunday.