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wmpe2000: picacho peak trail sign
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wmpe2000: picacho peak - hunter trail
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wmpe2000: pincushion flower and white lined sphinx caterpillar
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wmpe2000: Amsinckia tessellata gone to seed
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wmpe2000: white tackstem
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wmpe2000: trail
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wmpe2000: Sphaeralcea ambigua
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wmpe2000: pink desert globe mallow
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wmpe2000: Desert globe mallow
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wmpe2000: globe mallow in front of adensite cliff
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wmpe2000: Sphaeralcea ambigua
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wmpe2000: black vulture seen from above
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wmpe2000: picacho mountains east across I-10
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wmpe2000: Lyre-leaf jewelflower
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wmpe2000: wavy cloak fern grows in the rocky shadows of cliffs
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wmpe2000: view from the peak at 3374 feet after a 1500 ft elevation gain
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wmpe2000: we had lunch on a lower outcropping near black vultures roosting after being chased off the peak by a million small insects looking for a place to land (arms, legs, eyes, mouth, nose)
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wmpe2000: view south
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wmpe2000: male chuckwalla blending in
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wmpe2000: female chuckwalla