Sunset, April 1st, 1994
Flowery and fiery, friend and foe: it may be California's most misunderstood habitat
THERE'S A TRAIL I HIKE THIS TIME OF YEAR, AFTER THE LATE-SEASON RAINS have swep in to scrub Southern California clean. It's no walk into the wilderness--turn around and you see most of the Los Angeles Basin--but it's one of those trails that make you feel better about living in a place with thrust faults and bad traffic. At one turn blooms an orange spray of monkey flowers. At the next you shoulder your way through California lilac, or ceanothus, whose foamy blossoms create the illusion that you're walking ...
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