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As I start hiking across the creosote-bush scrub, a fluffy winterfat bush (Krascheninnikovia lanata) catches my attention

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3476-winterfat.jpg I refill my empty bottles from my water bag, have breakfast, and start out on today's hike across the fan to the Kelso Peak areaThumbnailsI hike past a small patch of yellow flowers, which seem to be goldfields (the tiny ones) and tidy tips, the larger onesI refill my empty bottles from my water bag, have breakfast, and start out on today's hike across the fan to the Kelso Peak areaThumbnailsI hike past a small patch of yellow flowers, which seem to be goldfields (the tiny ones) and tidy tips, the larger onesI refill my empty bottles from my water bag, have breakfast, and start out on today's hike across the fan to the Kelso Peak areaThumbnailsI hike past a small patch of yellow flowers, which seem to be goldfields (the tiny ones) and tidy tips, the larger onesI refill my empty bottles from my water bag, have breakfast, and start out on today's hike across the fan to the Kelso Peak areaThumbnailsI hike past a small patch of yellow flowers, which seem to be goldfields (the tiny ones) and tidy tips, the larger onesI refill my empty bottles from my water bag, have breakfast, and start out on today's hike across the fan to the Kelso Peak areaThumbnailsI hike past a small patch of yellow flowers, which seem to be goldfields (the tiny ones) and tidy tips, the larger ones

I saw a few of these on my way up Kelbaker Road yesterday, but none as fluffy as this one.