 | | This is classic poison oak. It doesn't always look like this though.
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 | | Hiking through Oak Flats, the rain took a nice break for us to eat.
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save file: small medium large |  | | Looking down from the ridge/oak flats to the bottom/San Mateo Creek, our camp in the white-ish area.
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save file: small medium large |  | | Betty, one of the students. This is her camera.
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save file: small medium large |  | | That'd be me in the yellow giving a demonstration on water filtration techniques.
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save file: small medium large |  | | Appetizer time, in the rain. I'd be mooching some chemical/carbon-based heat soon. Brrr. It didn't make sleeping in the rain any easier, I don't hike with a tent. My bottom tarp sort of became my tent, a really noisy tyvek one.
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save file: small medium large |  | | The next day the creek rose with the rain and crossing was psychologically harder for some folks.
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save file: small medium large |  | | Like I was saying…. People have no problems taking a 2ft step if it's on a sidewalk. But somehow the same 2ft step becomes harder…
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save file: small medium large |  | | Just outside camp is a 1000ft climb with full packs. Our bodies haven't warmed up yet, but this climb will do the trick!
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save file: small medium large |  | | View southward to Fisherman's camp. The weenie trips sleep there. As do lots of Boyscouts.
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