Rails Around the USA:
Summer, 2005

Santa Paula and Los Padres National Forest

June 9 - June 21, 2005

Laurence Krieg

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01 - Santa Paula oil history mural - with Carol	02 - Santa Paula transportation history mural	03 - Filmore and Western excursion
04 - Filmore and Western diesels	05 - Filmore and Western mini-steam loco number 1 - Sespe	06 - Morehouse Ranch horses
07 - Thomas Aquinas College entry	08 - Thomas Aquina College	09 - Oasis bridge with Carol
10 - Oasis cascade	11 - Oasis path	12 - Oasis sluice
13 - Oasis middle pool	14 - Santa Paula creek flood damage	15 - Santa Paula creek flood damaged car
16 - Santa Paula Mountains	17 - Santa Paula Mountains	18 - Morehouse Ranch nanny and kid
19 - Unloading Carol's Jeep	20 - Fishbowls trail	21 - Carol identifying flowers
22 - Flower 02	23 - Flower 01	24 - Flowers growing out of a fire-blackened stump
25 - Piru Creek	26 - Bears like sharpening their claws on campground signs	27 - The smaller fishbowl
28 - The larger fishbowl	29 - Carol and I have supper at Fishbowls Campground	30 - Camping arrangements at Fishbowls Campground
31 - Looking north from the lower slopes of Pine Mountain	32 - Mountain Yucca - or Spanish Bayonette	33 - Yucca in blossom
34 - Looking northwest from the lower slopes of Pine Mountain	35 - A patriarchal Douglass Fir	36 - Looking east from the lower slopes of Pine Mountain
37 - Flower 03	38 - Looking west from higher up Pine Mountain	39 - Bear track - about 6 inchs - 10 cm
40 - Mountain panorama	41 - Fallen logs make the trail a challenge	42 - A carpet of purple flowers
43 - Varied lichens on a boulder	44 - Flowering shrubs	45 - Carol resting in her Bug-Off hat
46 - Many interesting boulders on upper Pine Mountain	47 - Enjoying the panorama	48 - How long till the next earthquake
49 - Dinosaur-head rock	50 - Looking west from the crest of the trail	52 - Balancing rock near the crest
53 - Carol filling water bottles at the crest	54 - Baby pine cones	55 - Spiral growth pattern revealed
56 - Masses of purple blossoms	57 - Down the south side of Pine Mountain	58 - Flower 04
59 - Mini-arch or maxi-hammer	60 - Mountain apartments	61 - Rocky slopes
62 - Approach path	63 - Snow flower - a beautiful fungus	64 - Breakfast at Pine Mountain Lodge
65 - Ponderosa pine bark	66 - Towering rocks - towering yucca	67 - California King Snake
67 - Cedar Creek Trail - slippery slopes	68 - Cedar Creek	69 - Majestic cedar at Cedar Creek Camp
70 - Not-so-majestic-Carol in a hollow cedar	71 - Wild roses by Cedar Creek	73 - Matilaja poppies by route 33
74 - Matliaja poppies - growing out of rocks	75 - Matilaja poppies	76 - Bellyache falls north of Ojai