Those are really nice pictures! I love the third to last one; those flowers are really neat. Looks like a fun place to go. You saw no mountain lions I take it?
Thanks, snapzy! Yeah, I had never seen anything like that little bugger, lol. For a moment there I had the sense of being alone on an alien planet. I'm really happy that someone commented on the shot - good eye! :1eye:
Cougars and their bobcat cousins keep a wary low profile around people there. Tracks may be found crisscrossing the trails, but according to a chart at the ranger station, there hasn't been a face-to-face mountain lion sighting at the park since October of 2006. And in that encounter, I'm sure that the animal was as chagrined and eager to scram as the human. Squirrels and cottontail rabbits are falling out of the trees at Carbon Canyon, so the thought of attacking anything our size would probably seem pretty unappealing to the spoiled local cats. I was on the lookout mostly for quicksand, which I have stumbled into there before, and bitey things sized snake and under. My only bugaboo all told, though, was some minor dehydration after the scenery drew me in a lot farther than I'd planned.
Granted, it isn't
the most breathtaking layout in California, but it's just ten miles from here down Lambert Road and that's a big plus. I'd definitely recommend Carbon to someone who likes to get out and away from buildings and cars once in a while and just breathe easy.