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How are you doing those panoramas? Do you have to stitch the images together?

Those wildlife pictures look like they are out of National Geographic
Think I am going to put a DSLR on my wish list.
Great job

Bob

Official trip report is on my website http://www.sefcik.com/2011/04/indian-clark-blair-valley-abdsp.html

Bob has a great trip report for the day he was out with me, read his first, he is far better at writing up trip reports than I am.

http://www.anzaborrego.net/Travel/AnzaBorrego/post/2011/04/02/Wildflowers-and-Pictographs-in-Southern-Anza-Borrego.aspx

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Camped out for three nights last week in Indian Valley and Blair Valley. Bob from the Anza Borrego website wanted to check out some pictographs Scott and I found on a previous trip so I met him in Indian Valley for a second trip out to Inner Pasture where the pictographs are located. Along the way we spotted a Red Racer snake lounging in the sun and also many wildflowers blooming in the sandy washes and rocky ridges we climbed.

The next day I headed over to Clark Valley to finally see the petroglyphs located near the dry lake bed. Temperatures that day reached 97 degrees on my truck dash, it was hot and I ended up drinking close to 120 ounces of water for a 4 mile hike. I camped the last night in Blair Valley where I knew it would be cooler and it was 87 degrees when I arrived near 5pm. I ended up camping at the Pictograph trailhead and in the morning hiked down to see the pictographs and also Smuggler Canyon. These pictographs are well documented by all of the Anza Borrego Visitor information pamphlets and are actually pretty cool to go see. The road is a 5 mile hard packed dirt road passable by almost any vehicle in good weather. In fact the only people I saw showed up in a Honda Fit. They stayed briefly and then I had the whole area to myself until I left the next morning.

Total Mylar balloon count for 3 days of hiking....15

You can see more pictures of Indian Valley, Clark Valley and Blair Valley here http://www.darensefcik.com/Photography/Anza-Borrego-Desert-State-Park/Indian-Clark-Blair-Valley-03/16442960_DPj8h

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the trip.

Red Racer snake


Fishhook cactus, now I see why they are named this..8-)


Desert Beetle covered in pollen


Turkey Vulture in Indian Valley


Desert Iguana in Clark Valley


Side-Blotched Lizard in Blair Valley


White-crowned Sparrow in Clark Valley


Here links to some very large panorama images of Clark Valley and Smuggler Canyon (warning, they are very large to download, 4mb & 9mb)

Clark Valley: http://www.darensefcik.com/Photography/Panoramas/clarkvalleypanorama/1237667571_t56Ud-O.jpg

Smuggler Canyon: http://www.darensefcik.com/Photography/Panoramas/smugglercanyonpanorama/1237668078_bNyuH-O.jpg

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edited by dsefcik on 4/3/2011