title	California Snow: San Bernadino State Forest, California, US - 26th March 2006
intro	It's fairly unusual for there to be snow in Southern California, and so loads of people stream up to the mountains to see it, play in it, and in our case, take photos of it as Nosher gets a ride along with fellow Qualcomm employee Ken, his wife Jen and their dog, out along I-8, up Sunrise Highway and into San Bernadino State Park forest. We then hike out up the Lightning Ridge Trail - Nosher with his trusty Pentax, Jen with a rather cool panoramic Hasselblad and Ken with a Nikon and an amazing retro-style medium-format field camera - serious stuff. A couple of weeks later, Nosher's back in the UK for the Easter weekend.
imgp8567	Jen stands astride a heap of ploughed snow
imgp8570	Ken does a bit of map-reading
imgp8571	Aeolian snow carving
imgp8574	A tree stump in the snow
imgp8583	Ken checks some equipment
imgp8585	Ken, Jen and the dog pause by the trail marker
imgp8588	Off on the trail
imgp8590	Another long tree stump
imgp8595	Skeleton trees
imgp8596	Milling around in the woods
imgp8612	Hot rock
imgp8625	Lichen on a twig
imgp8627	Jen takes a photo
imgp8628	More tree moss
imgp8642	Nice grain in twisted wood
imgp8650	A gnarled stump
imgp8655	A sheet of pure green lichen
imgp8660	Ken sets up the field camera
imgp8663	Ken checks composition under the cover of a field camera
imgp8683	A headbanging woodpecker
imgp8699	This dead tree has been seriously worked by a woodpecker
imgp8703	Bright green sphagnum moss on a burnt tree-trunk
imgp8717	A flash of green
imgp8728	At the top of Lightning Ridge Trail, and a dead fallen tree
imgp8746	Ken goes for another photo
imgp8749	Ken with an adjustment
imgp8753	Ken takes a light-meter reading as the field camera waits
imgp8760	Cracked tree rings
imgp8777	We head back down the hill
imgp8787	Sunlight through the trees
imgp8797	Ken appears from behind a bush
imgp8800	A kid emulates his snowman
imgp8802	The shadow of a contrail on high cloud
imgp8805	Misty mountains near Julian, on Route 79
imgp8809	On the road to Ramona
imgp8862	Back home, there's a rainbow over the back field
imgp8865	It's a bright double rainbow
imgp8873	A last flash of light
imgp8885	The looming presence of an electricity pylon
imgp8889	Sunset over Thrandeston
imgp8923	Flowers in a church window
imgp8928	Stained glass
imgp8929	A pot in an alcove
imgp8935	The Bishop of Thrandeston waits for parishoners
imgp8937	Uncle Mick and Janice
imgp8938	St. Margaret of Antioch churchyard