Saturday, March 4, 2017

Stranded in the High Desert



On Friday morning we made a short hike around beautiful Hidden Valley.  Because it’s shaded by the rocks, pinyon pines and oaks grow here, so of course we saw an oak tit (Bird of Day).

After noon Leo drove off for a trail run in Los Angeles, leaving me vehicle-less for 2 days.  He stayed in a motel overnight and ran on Saturday.  There are worse places to be stranded.  Other than moving my chair around the trailer trying in vain to sit in the sun and out of the wind, there is a long-distance horse trail passing right by the campground, so I walked down it for one hour, then turned back.  It’s a rather unadvertised trail so it was just me, a few birds, the Joshua trees, some boulders and a few thousand prickly plants out in the desert for a few hours.



On Saturday, I hiked up into the Pinto Mountains in the morning, and got a great view of the park and our campsite. IIn the afternoon I headed out in the opposite direction, where I saw this boulder with a hole in it:






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