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Good spot for a picnic breakfast with a view.
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Bull mooing
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Lupines already in full bloom here.
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Crandall's Champion wire
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Lomatium dasycarpum ssp. dasycarpum, WOOLLY-FRUITED LOMATIUM.
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Oak with a layer of fog and the Santa Lucia Range in the distance
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Unidentified orange lichen on twigs
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Kaernefeltia merrillii, FLATTENED THORNEBUSH LICHEN?
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Caloplaca ignea, FLAME FIREDOT LICHEN
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Interesting rock outcrop -looks a bit like the front of a horse
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Viola pedunculata, JOHNNY JUMP-UP
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Dodge Washburn wire (1881)
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Galvanized barbed wire in good condition coming out of middle of big, old oak
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Hikes with Eric always seem to involve lots of off-trail scrambling and crawling
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the highest peaks still have some snow!
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Small stock ponds/vernal pools near the southwest boundary of Pinnacles National Park
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Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, RUSTY POPCORNFLOWER, FOOTHILL SNOWDROPS.
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View east showing the distinctive white cliff we used as a landmark
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Neotamias merriami, MERRIAM'S CHIPMUNK
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Cardamine californica (C. californica var. c.), MILK MAIDS, TOOTH WORT
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Cardamine californica (C. californica var. c.), MILK MAIDS, TOOTH WORT
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Berberis pinnata ssp. pinnata, COAST BARBERRY
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Primula clevelandii var. patula (Dodecatheon c. ssp. patulum), LOWLAND SHOOTING STAR
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Primula clevelandii var. patula (Dodecatheon c. ssp. patulum), LOWLAND SHOOTING STAR
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Primula clevelandii var. patula (Dodecatheon c. ssp. patulum), LOWLAND SHOOTING STAR
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Primula clevelandii var. patula (Dodecatheon c. ssp. patulum), LOWLAND SHOOTING STAR
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Primula clevelandii var. patula (Dodecatheon c. ssp. patulum), LOWLAND SHOOTING STAR
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Primula clevelandii var. patula (Dodecatheon c. ssp. patulum), LOWLAND SHOOTING STAR
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Primula clevelandii var. patula (Dodecatheon c. ssp. patulum), LOWLAND SHOOTING STAR
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Sedum spathulifolium, BROADLEAF STONECROP
