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Oh my gosh: this is the first time I was glad to leave my favorite place. Last year we had dangerous rain and thunderstorms, which was unusual for this time. This year, no rain, but no rain for a very long time….so it was not only extremely hot (in the hundreds all day and most of the night), but it was dusty. The wind blew every day. It blew so hard that the fine silt on the ground penetrated our tents daily. This led to some serious dehydration problems, including headaches, dizziness, and nausea. I cancelled the 19 mile hike, as the second spring that we needed to find for water on day 2 was most likely dry. I am glad we did, as I got a heat/dehydration headache, too, and we found out on our 10-mile round trip hike up the Rancherias Canyon to the “waterfall” that there would not have been a second spring. Deadly. ONe group went up to the Oso loop, and one group biked into the solitario. One group got to hang out at the ranch house to keep out of the heat.
We saw big horn sheep, javelina, one rattlesnake, outrageous frogs in the one oasis we visited, and plenty of strange new things the Jersey gang had not experienced. Two tents broke in the last night’s wind storms (but no rain, mind you). The Mexican food has been great, the Vegan on the trip is surviving with a great attitude!
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