Saturday - back roads

Today we went on much the same trip as yesterday, except in the reverse direction. It was clouding up in the hills already, likely to rain there this afternoon. This was looking back the way we had come today:

A lot of the greenery is juniper, but a lot is a kind of scrub oak, much of it just loaded with large acorns:

We did some mild off-roading today, going a few miles up an easy-rated trail (pic above). The trail was certainly easy, well-graded, crossing and re-crossing Onion Creek. It still would have been nice to have a "buddy vehicle" with us though - the trail may be easy, but could be a long walk back!