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It's amazing how a few trees manage to grow in the cracks between rocks in the steep slopes of Eagle Rocks

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5570-eagle-rocks.jpg I run across a patch of young Palmer's penstemons in the burned area on the way back to Mid Hills campgroundThumbnailsI look up through another burned-tree canopy toward rock towers at Eagle RocksI run across a patch of young Palmer's penstemons in the burned area on the way back to Mid Hills campgroundThumbnailsI look up through another burned-tree canopy toward rock towers at Eagle RocksI run across a patch of young Palmer's penstemons in the burned area on the way back to Mid Hills campgroundThumbnailsI look up through another burned-tree canopy toward rock towers at Eagle RocksI run across a patch of young Palmer's penstemons in the burned area on the way back to Mid Hills campgroundThumbnailsI look up through another burned-tree canopy toward rock towers at Eagle RocksI run across a patch of young Palmer's penstemons in the burned area on the way back to Mid Hills campgroundThumbnailsI look up through another burned-tree canopy toward rock towers at Eagle Rocks

From what I can tell, the trees furthest over in the rocks weren't subjected to the flames of the 2005 fires here like the one close to the camera. I can see Kelso-Cima Road down there in the valley!