Joshua Tree National Park is several hours southeast of Los Angeles, close to the Arizona border. Our visit this past month was a highlight of a lifetime. Its approximate 790,000 acres contain a variety of terrains and some of the most beautiful sights we've ever seen.
A Joshua tree and many of its smaller friends. Notice the mountains are not composed of hundreds of split boulders yet.
Outcroppings of granite, millions of years old, were pushed up from the earth and when they hit the cold air and moisture, the rocks split into marvelous 'stacked' mountains.
Not Wilma and Fred, but Margie and David. We're about to embark on a mile or so hike...
A Joshua tree and many of its smaller friends. Notice the mountains are not composed of hundreds of split boulders yet.
Outcroppings of granite, millions of years old, were pushed up from the earth and when they hit the cold air and moisture, the rocks split into marvelous 'stacked' mountains.
Here climbers amaze us as we trip over the relatively flat part of the trail.
It looked to us as if the millions of boulders had actually been stacked there.
One of the features of this high point of the park is the view below of the San Andreas Fault. Hard to see because of the haze, but there nonetheless.
In the southernmost part of the park is the huge cacti 'garden' that actually looks over the Mojave and Colorado Deserts to the south.
