Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

A brief glimpse of Buckeye the other day as the rain clouds cleared. They were way deep in Spring Creek Basin’s eastern McKenna Peak Wilderness Study Area, and there wasn’t much evidence that it *had* rained. The thirsty land and vegetation slurps it up, and the wind takes care of any water that was “foolish” (!) enough to puddle.

When I first saw them from a distance, they were south of a known seep; by the time I got out to them, they had walked north and crossed my (their) trail. There’s water in a pond not far west, and the fact that they were as deep as they were leaves me knowing that they have water sources that *enable* them to stay as deep as they do. Not where *I* know water can be found but where *they* know water can be found.