Highlights of the trip

The Pacific Coast Trail

The cabin was nice. Had a fire place. That sure was a good thing since it rained a bunch this weekend. We had a bit of smoke in the room on the last day.


I believe that this will be a recurring theme. Smiles suggested the chocolate graham crackers.... Quite a big hit with the golden dragon and the flying squirrel.

Huckleberry buds get saturated with rain water.

The Cupeno (Luiseno) Indians would grind the acorns into a flour in the granite boulders that were near the hot spring (see morter holes above). They would then leach the tannins out of the acorns in the hot springs here. "When required they were taken from the granary, placed one by one on a stone, and struck with another stone with sufficient force to crack the hulls. They were then placed in the sun, which caused the hulls to break open, after which these were removed from the acorn with a bone tool, maavish. Afterwards the acorns were pounded into flour in a mortar, a stone pestle being used for this purpose. The meal is leached with hot water to take out the bitterness. This is sometimes accomplished by placing it in a rush basket and pouring warm water over it ; at other times by placing it in a hole made in sand, and then pouring warm water over it, the water soaking away through the sand. The leached meal is afterwards cooked in an earthen vessel. " taken from :
http://www.archive.org/stream/cultureluisedno00sparrich/cultureluisedno00sparrich_djvu.txt http://www.happybeagle.com/lv-online/history/cupeno.html
http://www.archives.gov/pacific/education/curriculum/4th-grade/acorn.html

As it turns out the Pala Indians have purchased the Warner springs ranch. Things come full circle now.

Sulfur smells good. 140 degrees at the "head water" of the hot spring.

Managed to wrestle Blogger to the ground. Outlasted the camcorder/video software until it spit out an .avi file. So , a week late, here goes a few vids/pics from the camping trip last weekend.

Warner Springs Trip

The Mayans had a blast in Warner Springs this past weekend. Bikes, games, the hot springs (and the cold pool for one brave Mayan), movies, hikes, a deer, the pacific crest trail, rain and rain. Good times.

First Camping Trip

Local Mountains. 10 tribe members, 4 scooters one bike, sub 40's camping. There was a red flag warning so we made smores over the propane burner.

We named ourselves after the Mayans and at the time I did not know the Mayans were the ones with the calender that ends Dec 21 or 22, 2012. Guess we don't have to worry about our cholesterol.

More on the original Mayans:

http://www.mayankids.com/ http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-mayan.html