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I turn around and start my way back down Saddle Horse Canyon, wondering if I shouldn't be turning around so soon

4065-saddle-horse-canyon.jpg This bushy desert oak shrub in Saddle Horse Canyon seems to have grown back despite being burned in the 2005 brush firesThumbnailsI pass a budding milkweed in Saddle Horse CanyonThis bushy desert oak shrub in Saddle Horse Canyon seems to have grown back despite being burned in the 2005 brush firesThumbnailsI pass a budding milkweed in Saddle Horse CanyonThis bushy desert oak shrub in Saddle Horse Canyon seems to have grown back despite being burned in the 2005 brush firesThumbnailsI pass a budding milkweed in Saddle Horse CanyonThis bushy desert oak shrub in Saddle Horse Canyon seems to have grown back despite being burned in the 2005 brush firesThumbnailsI pass a budding milkweed in Saddle Horse CanyonThis bushy desert oak shrub in Saddle Horse Canyon seems to have grown back despite being burned in the 2005 brush firesThumbnailsI pass a budding milkweed in Saddle Horse Canyon

I made the mistake of not wearing long pants on this hike, the consequence being that I'm constantly stopping to pull out grass pieces from my socks that poke into my ankles like little thorns.