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March 28, Hidden Valley
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March 28, Hidden Valley, crazy rappelling rock climber
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March 29
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March 29. A lonely Joshua Tree.
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March 29. Janine on the Trail.
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March 30, rocky landscape; notice the hikers at bottom for scale.
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March 30
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March 31, on the way to the Wall Street Mine.
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March 31, on the way to the Wall Street Mine. Jackrabbit!
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March 31, near the Wall Street Mine, abandoned car.
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March 31, near the Wall Street Mine, abandoned Wonderland ranch.
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March 31, a lizard friend just hanging around.
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March 31, blooming cactus.
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March 31, Barker Dam lake, an oasis in the wilds.
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April 1, another jackrabbit crosses our path, in a hurry to be elsewhere.
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April 1, young Joshua Tree and old mountain.
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April 1, Pioneertown, Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace; we had dinner there the night before, returned in daylight to see what we'd missed.
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April 1, Pioneertown, Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace - Paul McCartney played there once - no kidding!
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April 1 at Pappy & Harriet's, near Yucca Valley.
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April 1, Pioneertown, Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace; we had dinner there the night before, returned in daylight to see what we'd missed.
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April 2 - last day in park. Arch Rock - the highlight of a short but fascinating geology hike.
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April 2 - last day in park. This is called a "dike" - it's the exposed edge of a thin hard layer of igneous rock that filled the split between two other layers of softer rock. As the edge was exposed, the softer rock eroded first, so the harder layer's edge makes this wall or ridge-like phenomenon.
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April 2 - last day in park. Another, thinner, dike. You see them everywhere once you start to look for them.
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April 2 - last day in park. Another, tooth-like, dike. You see them everywhere once you start to look for them.
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April 2 - last day in park. Skull Rock - it earns the name.
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April 2 - last day in park. Janine at Inspiration Peak, elevation 5550 ft, a strenuous clamber up over 400 vertical feet (twice) from the nearest parking.
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April 2 - last day in park. Janine at Inspiration Peak, elevation 5550 ft, a strenuous clamber up over 400 vertical feet (twice) from the nearest parking.
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April 2 - last day in park. A Joshua Tree forest, with an older example at the fore.
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April 3, Kings Restaurant in Calabasas - just gorgeous, and great food!
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April 4 at the Santa Monica Pier. Odin and Dev.
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