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rozoneill: Welcoming sign at the trailhead
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rozoneill: We would eventually end up on top of that high ridge
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rozoneill: Dense stands of oak surrounded the trail
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rozoneill: Some trees had been shedding various body parts
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rozoneill: The first part of the hike was on a ranch road
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rozoneill: Oaks, stark and austere against a bleak sky
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rozoneill: Middle Ridge (our return route) loomed above us
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rozoneill: Conks, doing the work of recycling a decaying log
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rozoneill: Bare oaks, everywhere you look
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rozoneill: Chasm Creek did not particularly carry a lot of water
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rozoneill: Oaken silhouette against the overcast
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rozoneill: Oak trees of the horizontal kind
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rozoneill: Initially, it was a pleasant stroll through the woods
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rozoneill: A veritable wall of oak trees
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rozoneill: Oaken silhouettes
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rozoneill: Oak leaves carpeted the forest floor
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rozoneill: The trail began to incline upward
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rozoneill: A collection of tree trunks, some mossed and some not
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rozoneill: The pictorial definition of scraggly
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rozoneill: Leaf littered trail circling through the woods
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rozoneill: This giant madrone tree is known as The Bear Tree
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rozoneill: Oak galls were a common sight in the dead leaf litter
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rozoneill: Now this hike is becoming work!
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rozoneill: The trail begain to follow a ridge crest
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rozoneill: Some of that local scenery
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rozoneill: The gently rolling hills are not so gentle when you have to hike up them
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rozoneill: Grassy slope next to the trail
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rozoneill: The sad part was that this was not the top of the ridge
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rozoneill: As we climbed, views began to show themselves
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rozoneill: Keri and her borrowed bamboo walking stick