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View of our route, courtesy of Google Earth, looking north-east. We started at the far left and the Fossil Trail goes up the canyon on the right side.
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The first steep hill, although not very long, in Rancho Siera Vista/Satwiwa
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On the way to the windmill
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Boney Mtn is visible in the distance. We'll get a lot closer.
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The windmill
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The Upper Sycamore Trail is a little overgrown here. We can see lot of burned trees from the Springs Fire two years ago, but the vegetation has come back really quickly here!
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This is where the Upper Sycamore Trail was washed out during the flood of December 2014.
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We're starting to climb the Fossil Trail. It's not steep... yet!
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Okay, it's getting steeper
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Nice views into Sycamore Canyon to the west
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The Springs Fire really destroyed everything here
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You can tell how steep it is by how much people are leaning forward!
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We saw an amazing number and diversity of wildflowers, I thought, for the end of May
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California poppies
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These look like California poppies, but they were only about as big as a diime
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Boney Mountain looms over us
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