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Starting out
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Heading down the hill
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Some animal cached these buckeyes
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Taricha torosa, CALIFORNIA NEWT.
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distant peaks
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Lots of lichen on trunk of this oak
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Closer view of lichen on trunk of oak.
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Fungus, moss and a strange, bluish lichen
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Heading down the hill
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Approaching Dinosaur pond
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Dinosaur pond - view south
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Dinosaur pond with black phoebe on tule
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Grindelia camporum, GREAT VALLEY GUMPLANT.
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Grindelia camporum, GREAT VALLEY GUMPLANT.
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Dinosaur pond, view north
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Descending Salt Creek below Dinosaur pond.
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Buckeyes fill the dry bed of Salt Creek
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LIchen - Xanthoria polycarpa, PIN-CUSHION SUNBURST LICHEN or Xanthomendoza sp. SUNBURST LICHEN?
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Salt Creek is joined by another tributary
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mossy rock, Salt Creek,
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mossy rock detail, Salt Creek,
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some deeper pools of standing water in Salt Creek
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Dudleya sprouting on rocky bank of Salt Creek
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Bedrock mortar, full of water
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The canyon of Salt Creek begins to narrow and becomes harder to descend
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Buckeyes accumulate in dry spots in the bed of Salt Creek
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Heteromeles arbutifolia, CHRISTMAS BERRY, TOYON
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Heteromeles arbutifolia, CHRISTMAS BERRY, TOYON
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moss, unidentified. Salt Creek,
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Young Platanus racemosa, SYCAMORE
