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Sky was mostly clear but to the west, the valley was shrouded in fog and it appeared the marine air further west was heavy. I tramped around a bit but found little except this little jeffrey pine to aim my camera at. Further up on the ridge above Castle Point were some junipers I seen a decade ago but I found few in this area. The previous two days had been very windy turning the snow surface to weird sastrugi forms. It had snowed six days before and the sun across this windswept ridge had transformed the beautiful powder snow.
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As I walked about, I noted some critter tracks, a coyote or less common red fox?
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At the nearby ski area, I sometimes have surprised snowshoe hares, lepus americanus, in pure white winter coats, skiing through forest glades. And the sound of coyotes is common at night where I sometimes overnight up the road near Carson Pass. I stopped to take a closeup of the tracks then a short ways further came upon an area of red stained snow.
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Near the bloody snow was a very fresh dog dropping. Lots of fine white hair littered the area. I noted what looked like a fresh rabbit dropping that had white hairs next to it. ...David
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