Coyote Wall 20 Mar 2015

First day of spring!  Headed out to Coyote Wall because I knew the flowers were showing up early this year.  I hiked the same hike on 4 April last year but saw a lot more variety of flowers this year.  It was a cloudy day  - great for photographing the flowers.  I had the wall to myself until lunchtime.  Beautiful!

For more flower photos:  Picasa link
Map of hike

I started the hike at the Labyrinth Trail about 0.8 miles down the road from the car. Joined the Hidden Creek trail then Atwood Road.  Headed over to the wall and hiked up for the view.  On the way down I took the Little Maui Trail then joined a regular wall trail to exit back to the road.  7 mi 1500 ft gain

Grass widows and cinquefoil?

oaks

larkspur

yellow filliary

oak forest

Columbia Desert Parsley

Balsamroot

Coyote Wall

Lunch spot

surprise pond