As we sometimes do, me and pucklady met up today to go hiking. This time we went on a trail I'd hiked before, Sunset Peak trail - which leads to the eponymous mountain that is one of the lower subordinate peaks to Mt. Baldy. I managed to get a number of very cool images - some of new perspectives that I hadn't captured before in my previous hiking diary, and some that are much clearer and deeper versions of earlier photos with better lighting conditions. And this time I didn't endanger myself on hubristic mission-creep objectives, just had a nice time hiking.
Ran into a harmless little gopher snake sunning himself (oddly in the shade):
I love the following two perspectives below - they show the cloud deck below the ridgeline parallaxing vertically as we ascended:
We reach the summit:
I especially like the photograph below due to the level of dimensional layering and relative clarity throughout:
A weird horned lizard of some sort that made violent shuffling motions trying to run away but only moved forward very slowly for some reason:
The return trip:
The foresty part of the trail provides the most shade and smells sweet, but has the most bugs:
Two photos looking back at Sunset Peak from halfway back down - in the second, you can see the two levels of trail that switchback along its side to reach the summit:
I don't know what this is, but I thought it looked interesting:
Apparently this is the equipment that keeps the trail level: