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My GPS leads me around a bend toward Coyote Spring; I'm at the lowest elevation of today's trip, 4430 feet

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02237-to-coyote-spring.jpg I leave Wildcat Spring and start hiking toward my next stop, Coyote Spring, about 1/2 mile beyondThumbnailsAll this greenery says that this must be Coyote Spring, but I don't see any water here, not even a bit of mudI leave Wildcat Spring and start hiking toward my next stop, Coyote Spring, about 1/2 mile beyondThumbnailsAll this greenery says that this must be Coyote Spring, but I don't see any water here, not even a bit of mudI leave Wildcat Spring and start hiking toward my next stop, Coyote Spring, about 1/2 mile beyondThumbnailsAll this greenery says that this must be Coyote Spring, but I don't see any water here, not even a bit of mudI leave Wildcat Spring and start hiking toward my next stop, Coyote Spring, about 1/2 mile beyondThumbnailsAll this greenery says that this must be Coyote Spring, but I don't see any water here, not even a bit of mudI leave Wildcat Spring and start hiking toward my next stop, Coyote Spring, about 1/2 mile beyondThumbnailsAll this greenery says that this must be Coyote Spring, but I don't see any water here, not even a bit of mud

A giant rhus trilobata (that big green bush) welcomes me into the wash that presumably leads up to Coyote Spring. A mourning dove runs away, trying desparately to fly, but apparently injured and flightless.