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I pass an unexpected manzanita shrub as I begin my way down the boulder pile

02170-manzanita.jpg There's no shortage of quirky rocks in the Eagle Rocks area to look atThumbnailsSmall blue flowers peer out from between some rocks on the ridge between Coyote Spring and Chicken Water SpringThere's no shortage of quirky rocks in the Eagle Rocks area to look atThumbnailsSmall blue flowers peer out from between some rocks on the ridge between Coyote Spring and Chicken Water SpringThere's no shortage of quirky rocks in the Eagle Rocks area to look atThumbnailsSmall blue flowers peer out from between some rocks on the ridge between Coyote Spring and Chicken Water SpringThere's no shortage of quirky rocks in the Eagle Rocks area to look atThumbnailsSmall blue flowers peer out from between some rocks on the ridge between Coyote Spring and Chicken Water SpringThere's no shortage of quirky rocks in the Eagle Rocks area to look atThumbnailsSmall blue flowers peer out from between some rocks on the ridge between Coyote Spring and Chicken Water SpringThere's no shortage of quirky rocks in the Eagle Rocks area to look atThumbnailsSmall blue flowers peer out from between some rocks on the ridge between Coyote Spring and Chicken Water Spring

Manzanitas do grow at some of the higher elevations in the Mojave, but it's more a coastal California plant.