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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / 2008: Bikepacking in Henry Coe State Park / Day 4: Hike from Paradise Lake up Rooster Comb Trail and Orestimba Creek Road to Robison Creek and back /

While walking the mile up Red Creek toward Paradise Lake, it occurs to me that something here has changed since last year...

00080-missing-ceanothus-800.jpg The gravel of dry-in-summer Orestimba Creek radiates heat on a 100-degree day like concrete does in a big cityThumbnailsArriving back at Paradise Lake, a pretty sight, home again for the nightThe gravel of dry-in-summer Orestimba Creek radiates heat on a 100-degree day like concrete does in a big cityThumbnailsArriving back at Paradise Lake, a pretty sight, home again for the nightThe gravel of dry-in-summer Orestimba Creek radiates heat on a 100-degree day like concrete does in a big cityThumbnailsArriving back at Paradise Lake, a pretty sight, home again for the nightThe gravel of dry-in-summer Orestimba Creek radiates heat on a 100-degree day like concrete does in a big cityThumbnailsArriving back at Paradise Lake, a pretty sight, home again for the nightThe gravel of dry-in-summer Orestimba Creek radiates heat on a 100-degree day like concrete does in a big cityThumbnailsArriving back at Paradise Lake, a pretty sight, home again for the night

It's not apparent at first glance, but the brush fire here a year ago demolished a ceanothus grove that provided a bit of shade on the road. The small green plants are probably post-fire shrub regrowth.