Even more Joshua Tree National Forest

21 November 2014   Hidden Valley Trail

Bill Keys decided that Hidden Valley was a little to hard to get into so he blowed up the entrance real good.

 

Made it possible for us to get a nice short walk in a former grazing area. As you can see, unless cows like crispy trees and bushes there is no longer abundant feed for them. Explains why we saw no cattle.

Saw lots of rocks:

Some education of course:

 

Because of the dry climate a tree can die and its skeletal remains will linger for years. I believe this was a juniper tree:

Up close you can see how twisted the wood was:

 

Might explain why we don’t see a lot of juniper furniture.

If you are in the mood to personify some rocks take a gander below. If not you have reached the end of anything interesting and are now released.

Still here? What did you see? Hope you agree with me so I win the bet with Norene. GORILLA! DWARF!  (oops did that slip out?) Ignore what you just read and feel free to say whatever comes to mind. I’m trying to be as fair as possible of course.

GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA! DWARF!  GORILLA!

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