Sunday, 26 April 2009 (continued from here): After a light breakfast we drove into Joshua Tree National Park and headed to the trailhead for the Lost Horse Mine. We hit the trail at 8:45 with only one other car in the parking area – sweet! The trail angled through some Joshua Tree woodland before becoming [...]
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Joshua Tree/SoCal Trip – Part IV – Lost Horse Mine
Posted in Birding, Hiking, Nature, Photography, Travel, Wildflowers on 29 June, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Joshua Tree/Socal Trip – Part III – Oasis of Mara, Noah Purifoy, Key’s View, Cap Rock
Posted in Birding, Hiking, Nature, Photography, Travel, Wildflowers on 25 June, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Saturday, 25 April 2009 (continued from here): After our hike to Twentynine Palms Oasis, we drove to the town of the same name to check out the main Joshua Tree National Park visitor’s center, and the adjacent Oasis of Mara. Oasis of Mara The visitor’s center was surprisingly devoid of interpretive displays, and after picking [...]
Joshua Tree/SoCal Trip – Part II – Twentynine Palms Oasis
Posted in Birding, Hiking, Nature, Photography, Travel, Wildflowers on 17 June, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Saturday, 25 April 2009 (continued from here) We drove ~20 minutes from our house to Twentynine Palms, then up a road for a few miles until it ended at the trailhead for the Twentynine Palms Oasis trail. We hit the trail at 8:05, just behind a large’ish group of hikers, so we started slow to [...]
Joshua Tree/SoCal Trip – Part I – Getting there, settling in
Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography, Travel, Wildflowers on 8 June, 2009 | 25 Comments »
Friday, April 24 2009: We left home early, encountering no traffic at all getting out of the bay area, and drove the long’ish slog down I-5 to Bakersfield. Fortunately the drive to this part of California is “only” a couple hundred miles on mind-numbing I-5, rather than the full many-hours-long epic to get to LA, [...]
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