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A patch of grasses grows in a muddy spot in Seep Canyon like the ones at "real," identified springs

03232-seep-canyon.jpg I look back at another pile of rock that I just climbed down in Seep CanyonThumbnailsThere's even a small pool of water here in Seep CanyonI look back at another pile of rock that I just climbed down in Seep CanyonThumbnailsThere's even a small pool of water here in Seep CanyonI look back at another pile of rock that I just climbed down in Seep CanyonThumbnailsThere's even a small pool of water here in Seep CanyonI look back at another pile of rock that I just climbed down in Seep CanyonThumbnailsThere's even a small pool of water here in Seep CanyonI look back at another pile of rock that I just climbed down in Seep CanyonThumbnailsThere's even a small pool of water here in Seep Canyon

I've never thought before about what makes a marginal spring worthy of being identified and named. Some named desert springs don't even have this much vegetation. Perhaps nobody knows that this meagre spring exists?