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rozoneill: The day was getting pretty hot, and me with a backpack on
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rozoneill: Not going there today, but maybe in the future
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rozoneill: It's a right turn for me
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rozoneill: The trail heads uphill at a gentle incline
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rozoneill: I had been on that ridge the day before
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rozoneill: After a long climb, the trail blessedly heads downhill
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rozoneill: View up to the Pacific Crest
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rozoneill: Trail through an arid flat
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rozoneill: Too hot for even the ants to come out and play
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rozoneill: A foul-smelling buckwheat
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rozoneill: A rare patch of greenery in a drying creek bed
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rozoneill: Tree bunion
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rozoneill: View to what might be Cappy Mountain
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rozoneill: I startled a bird that was ground nesting
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rozoneill: A creek forms from the melting snow
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rozoneill: Back to the trailhead and my ride back home