Joshua Tree - May 2003 / IMG_5869 Patrick and Lucy

After Indian Cove, we went into town for refreshments (to make me less spacey)
and then looped back into the park to Hidden Valley.

Hidden Valley was originally a closed-off valley with no entrance - ringed with high,
steep rock walls. Inevitably, along came a rancher who climbed up to peer through
at the valley beyond and saw an area with its own mini-ecosystem. So he blasted a
hole at one end and let his cattle in to graze. <sigh>