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There were some downsides to rafting in April, including a week of cold wind, rain and sleet.
One of the great pluses: the canyon was alive with flowers. Early rains made 2002 one of the best for desert wildflowers in decades.

 


A wildflower in the Mallow family by the trail to the Bass miners' camp on Shinumo Creek.

A mesquite, not yet flowering, in the middle ground.



Brittlebush lines the hills.
 



Everywhere you turn in the canyon, a new set of splendors.
 



A tree covered with little yellow flowers along Shinumo Creek.
 



Flowering yucca.
 



New leaves appearing on an old mesquite, Nankoweap.
 

 

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