Don (me) hiked in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto National Monument desert on Tuesday. Extremely dry, rocky, sandy terrain makes up this whole conserved land. It gave me a much better idea of what the land is like where it is not irrigated. Where the irrigation ends, the green ends. I will let the pics do the rest of the talking.
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| Foxtail Cactus |
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| Silver Cholla cactus |
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| Ocotillo plant. Not a true cactus. |
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| Beavertail cactus growing out of a split rock. |
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| Jumping Cholla (or Teddy Bear) cactus |
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| More Jumping Cholla |
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| Looking down the valley. |
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| Creosote Bush. The main resident of this desert. |
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| Yucca....I think. |
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| The whole valley seems to be made of this rock from mountain sides, to boulders, to rocks, and even the sand. The area is over the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults and was created by uplifts of igneous and metamorphic rocks |
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| Rugged and eroded. |
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| Jumping Cholla blossoms. |
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| The bloom of the Chuparosa bush. They are only about 1 inch long. |
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| Babies around a type of Barrell cactus. |
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| Textures of the Beavertail cactus. Those little spots are spiky. |
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| Smoke bush. Looks dead but it will grow again if it ever rains. |
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| View from the peak back down to Palm Desert. Easy to tell where the irrigation is. |
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