There is a lot of rabbitbrush blooming right now (pictures 1 and 2). There were also some asters (picture 3) and a few salsify in bloom. There were many pollinators, mostly Fritillary butterflies (picture 1), and the beautiful moth in picture 4. I took the Boy Scout up, Chest Pains down, and did a 10 mile loop on the fast, mostly soft dirt mountain bike trails on the ridge (Frisky Donkey, Chin Biter, Hippies, Pine Oasis, Cougar Bait, and more, I pledged to myself to track these and get them added to the data that caltopo, gaia, and others draw on).
I correctly figured that the high temperature of 64 on this sunny day would be cool enough to keep the rattlesnakes in their burrows. The only large mammals I saw were the deer under the apple trees near the trailhead. Don't miss the flower garden at the trailhead, it is spectacularly colorful right now, and the gardener was giving away cucumbers.
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