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rozoneill: The hike looked easy...at first
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rozoneill: Buttercups took over the many meadows
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rozoneill: Penny and I soon lagged behind while keeping our cameras busy
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rozoneill: Oaken centerpiece of a green meadow
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rozoneill: These white flowers of unknown specie, were quite common in the low grasses
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rozoneill: Initially, the route was on farm roads
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rozoneill: Oregon grape enters the blooming season with yellow aplomb
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rozoneill: The pleasant ranch road would soon become our "Boot Camp" route
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rozoneill: Bare oaks against a brilliant blue sky
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rozoneill: The leaves of red henbit are as striking as the flower
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rozoneill: A bucolic little glade of oak trees
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rozoneill: A forest of oak trees reach for the sun
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rozoneill: Oh what tangled woods the oaks weave
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rozoneill: No complaints (yet) about the levelness of the hike
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rozoneill: Spring is that season where even poison oak looks pretty
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rozoneill: The trail begins to incline upward
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rozoneill: Pleaasant trail through the bare trees
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rozoneill: Now we begin to head uphill, in earnest
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rozoneill: The niceness of the grass belies the steep hike ahead of us
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rozoneill: The North Bank scenery on a gorgeous day
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rozoneill: Penny does a walk 'n gawk
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rozoneill: A standalone on a green slope
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rozoneill: Lots of trees under lots of sky
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rozoneill: The trail heads ever upward
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rozoneill: Shooting star, doing the shooting star thing
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rozoneill: It won't be long before the oaks leaf out
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rozoneill: Tall trees mock the little people hiking underneath them
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rozoneill: Maples, putting out the leaves
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rozoneill: Moss collects on a bole of oak trunks
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rozoneill: Even the mightiest oak began life as an acorn