[Axenolith]

Oh, the one I posted is a phenocryst in a granitic rock. It's just the west side of Sonora Pass.

That's with a Mavica too, I just got a 6.3 Mp Canon Digital Rebel and I am ITCHING to get out in the hills with it and fill stacks of CD ROMs :)

[AppauledAtAppeasementConservat]

Sonona pass? Yeah you could fill tons of cd's with images from CA terrain!

I was at Ft. Irwin outside of Barstow for a few weeks and all over the hill sides out there as an RTO for my fist platoon back in '94. It was a like a moon scape to me. I was on the Matterhorn pretty much the whole time and the granites there were gorgeous. I remember these redish mudstone rocks all over the place that looked like they had feldspar crystals in them. That and a kangaroo rat for a pet each night as I recall always eating my MRE left overs. I'll have to dig out my photo's and see if I still have that picture of him and those rocks.

Those kangaroo rats were something else...every time it started to get dark right after sunset those darn things would come out by the millions and proceed to jump on and over my sleeping bag for half the night! And I do mean millions of them.

Awesome country out there. I just wish I had more time to explore it rather than playing OPFOR against the 1st cav...of course that was fun too...

[Orion78]

6.3 Mp Canon Digital Rebel...

....DROOL....