It was a zoo today at Willow - we had snakes, hornets, ticks, dogs, park rangers, and, oh yeah climbers. For you herpetologists out there, we saw two types of snakes, the genus Thamnophis (garter) and Pituophis catenifer (bull) 
a large non-venomous colubrid snake. Then wasps, ticks and the true pest, the park ranger. Who wanted to give us a ticket for not onsighting every climb. (This is an improvement over years gone by, when, if you didn't make it to the top, they'd just shoot you. Whew! I'm glad they changed that policy.)
So there we were a menagerie of animals hanging out on the rocks. And helping erosion by pulling out loose rocks and throwing them to the ground. At least that's what Sunbeam was doing on her lead climb. (She was weeding the cliffs. Way to go 'beamer!)
Here's another WR production shot on location with a handheld digital camera on a limited budget by Ricardo Quick Draw.
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