Yesterday we drove way up Highway 2, the Angeles Crest Trail, and took a hike in Cooper Canyon. It was beautiful! Lots of lupine and yucca blooming, and the conifers up there (about 6500 feet) are amazing!! Doesn't seem like LA at all... the trail, which you can reach from the Buckhorm campground parking lot, follows a river until you scramble down a hill with the help of a rope, and hit a 25 foot waterfall. There were lots of kids playing in the cold water. We saw a few really cool things, a snakefly (weird insect in the order Neuroptera, with a long thorax), and a snow plant (Sarcodes sanguinea), a red parasitic plant that takes nutrients from fungi living underground.
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