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Desert four o'clock flowers brighten up this brown landscape northeast of Mid Hills campground

03287-mid-hills.jpg I head southwest across the burned Mid Hills plateau back toward the campground, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceThumbnailsThe luminosity of sunset starts to set in on the Mid Hills, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceI head southwest across the burned Mid Hills plateau back toward the campground, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceThumbnailsThe luminosity of sunset starts to set in on the Mid Hills, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceI head southwest across the burned Mid Hills plateau back toward the campground, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceThumbnailsThe luminosity of sunset starts to set in on the Mid Hills, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceI head southwest across the burned Mid Hills plateau back toward the campground, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceThumbnailsThe luminosity of sunset starts to set in on the Mid Hills, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceI head southwest across the burned Mid Hills plateau back toward the campground, with Eagle Rocks in the distanceThumbnailsThe luminosity of sunset starts to set in on the Mid Hills, with Eagle Rocks in the distance

I keep walking, enjoying the views, but these last few miles feel a bit longer than expected, perhaps because it's still often gently uphill and I'm getting tired.