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rozoneill: Let's get this party started!
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rozoneill: Innocuous looking trail at the start
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rozoneill: When trees intertwine
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rozoneill: The slopes of Stricklin Butte
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rozoneill: Peak 3295 against a clear blue sky
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rozoneill: The orange madrone trees really stand out in a forest
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rozoneill: Getting in some quality forest time on this hike
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rozoneill: The trail climbs through a spindly forest
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rozoneill: The trail approaches a dry creek bed
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rozoneill: It's the season for coyote mint
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rozoneill: Coyote mint was in peak bloom
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rozoneill: The gracefulness of madrone
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rozoneill: A fly basks in the warm sunlight
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rozoneill: A quintet of madrone
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rozoneill: Madrones, on their way to touch the sky
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rozoneill: It was bark-peeling season for the madrone trees
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rozoneill: A madrone unveils its new trunk color
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rozoneill: I do appreciate a shady trail on a hot day
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rozoneill: I'm about to hike in open sunlight
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rozoneill: Eleven-headed oak tree hydra
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rozoneill: View to Red Buttes and Kangaroo Mountain
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rozoneill: A squat tree grows in solid rock
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rozoneill: The trail attained the crest of Elliott Creek Ridge
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rozoneill: You'd be tempted to say poison oak is beautiful
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rozoneill: The geometry of trees
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rozoneill: My sunburn is peeling!
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rozoneill: A young madrone tree molts
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rozoneill: The summertime peeling of trees
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rozoneill: It was a lot drier on the south-facing side of Elliott Creek Ridge
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rozoneill: Scrawny looking forest on Elliott Creek Ridge