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Railroad Grade, rising from the end of Fern Canyon Rd.

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The Temelpa is sometimes called the "Telephone Trail" because of the telephone lines that follow a portion of the trail, supplying the fire lookout on the summit with communications.

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The lower portion of the Temelpa is almost entirely a tunnel through the manzanita bushes.

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The inscription reads: "Behold, my friends, the spring has come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

"Yet hear me, friends! we have now to deal with another people, small and feeble when our forefathers first met with them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes of the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

"This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."

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View x-large to read the text.

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There are always offerings at the monument.

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