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Sunrise on highway 101
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Sunrise on highway 101
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Sunrise on highway 101
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Sunrise on highway 101
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Ranch east of highway 25
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Goat watching the road from a wind-sheltered hole
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Wild boar, dead on the side of route 25 near Pinnacles.
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Closer view reveals his white eyelashes.
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Historic Butterfield ranch barns
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View east along Sandy Creek
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Bluish rocks, middle right are serpentine
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Cottonwoods and willow along Chalone Creek.
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Felis concolor, MOUNTAIN LION scat.
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Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens, BRACKEN, BRAKE.
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Woodwardia fimbriata, GIANT CHAIN FERN.
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brightly colored leaves reveal the location of Willow Spring
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Pteridium aquilinum var. pubescens, BRACKEN, BRAKE.
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brightly colored leaves reveal the location of Willow Spring
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Drier area along the drainage above Willow Spring
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Arctostaphylos glauca, BIG-BERRY MANZANITA.
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Scat from an animal that had been eating Arctostaphylos glauca, BIG-BERRY MANZANITA.
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Unidentified scat
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Eric heading back down the drainage towards Willow Spring.
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Colorful vegetation around Willow Spring.
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We followed a game trail up the hill above Willow Spring, but it ended in dense chaparral.
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Eric followed the creek back down from Willow Spring.
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Willows, sedges and poison oak line the creek below Willow Spring
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Populus trichocarpa (P. balsamifera ssp. t.), BLACK COTTONWOOD
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Rock outcrop, North Wilderness Trail.
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Populus trichocarpa (P. balsamifera ssp. t.), BLACK COTTONWOOD
