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Gibraltar Mountain
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Bluerock
...but had to "settle" for going here due to full campgrounds:
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Cataract Creek
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Mt. Burke at Sunset
It's a life of misery.
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Interestingly (or more likely not), my last encounter with a baby prairie rattlesnake was between Bluerock Creek and the Bluerock equestrian campground, the area shown in the top two photos. Rattlesnakes could never have been abundant in that area, even before white settlement. They're not even holding their own in their dry, southern fastnesses, due to agriculture and road traffic.
Cataract Creek (in the remaining photos) is an area where the introduced wild turkey thrives. But it's one of the few areas where the common dandelion, an introduced European species, is apparently making little headway and the native mountain dandelion continues to predominate.