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Pinnacles National Park

Prior to 2015, the closest I had been to Pinnacles was on a 100-mile bicycle ride down Hwy. 25 on the hottest day of the year,
watching hordes of tarantula spiders trekking to their annual mating rendezvous. This year's visit was much more easy-going, although quite nearly as hot.
I rambled on several short hikes and--pinnacle experience--watched entranced as three California Condors circled in thermals above a ridge,
dwarfing the dozen or so vultures doing the same thing. Without my binoculars, I could hardly see them. Through the binocs, I watched them
describe mesmerizing, fully-coordinated arcs together across the sky. Pelicans in southeast Idaho have nothing over these ballet masters.
I also saw perhaps more poison oak than I've ever encountered along hiking trails.

Grey Pines and Pinnacles
Grey Pines and Pinnacles		 g9/11/419411/3/160669688.HZx1Lg0N.jpg Poison Oak at Pinnacles
Poison Oak at Pinnacles		 Snail Leads the Way
Snail Leads the Way		 Grey Pine Sentinels at Pinnacles
Grey Pine Sentinels at Pinnacles		 g9/11/419411/3/160669681.VeXONA30.jpg

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