Natural History Wanderings

submitted by Ter Sullivan

We recently returned from Borrego and found no one else doing the seven-mile Glorietta Canyon loop, and the canyon was loaded with flowers, including plenty of ghost flowers and blazing stars. A videographer we met made a nice production of the first mile of the hike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic2NsBbMhIw By starting on the trails at 7:30am we missed the heat and the crowds doing Alcoholic Pass, Hawk Canyon, Plum Canyon, and even seeing no one else beyond the palm oasis at Borrego Palm Canyon. This Sunday eight of us leave for three weeks to catch the bloom in Southern Nevada with visits to two new national monuments: Gold Butte and Basin-and-Range.