Thursday, April 26, 2012

Rained Out at Empire Mine




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Seven of us hiked a  mile or so from the McKnight Way entrance on the new compacted rock trail but five turned back as the rain came in earlier than predicted.  Two of us continued and got several miles in before retiring to our home for the picnic lunch.  Wildflowers are blooming: bleeding heart in abundance, some kind of buttercup, creeping ceanothus, cat's ears, some kind of arnica.  Interestingly, someone has put white flags where wildflowers will be blooming.  We hiked up through very disturbed forest, some of the manzanita removed past the Conlon Mine diggins' to Osborne Hill and back. 

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