It was cold this morning: 45, so we hiked down the Hermit to Santa Maria for a change. Picked up a bag of nasty trash at the reptile tracks. But the light was very nice for pictures of said tracks.

Lilo Pizo, no one cares that you hiked to Santa Maria. And the Squirt Bottle of Retribution has erased your puny efforts at immortality.

Also saw a huge fossil fern which we moved off the trail so it doesn't get stepped on or stolen.

Told one gal it was too hot to hiked below Santa Maria and she laughed. I wonder if she's laughing now that it's over 80 on the rim and 100 in the bottom?