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An invite to go on a juniper dig with Harry Hirao is not to be missed. I left Fresno at 2:30 A.M. to drive to Mojave. Everyone met at Denny's to have breakfast. They were not ready to have 45 people decend on them, they were not staffed for this crowd. We met in the parking lot and loaded in the vehicles for the drive to the dig site. It is in Jawbone Canyon, on the Neveda side of the Tehachipe mountains. The junipers grow at the 3500 foot range and in a narrow belt. You have to dress in layers. I had about three t-shirts on and then a jacket. At six am it was about 35 degrees. The dig site takes about half an hour to drive to. There were 24 cars full in all. Clubs represented were Kofu Kai, Descanso, Fresno Bonsai Society, Hanford Bonsai Society, and the Sacramento Bonsai Club. At the site we were treated to a beautiful sunrise, and you can see that the terrain is fairly rough. Harry was in a 4-wheel drive vehicle and got seperated from most of the groups, due to the loose and rutted nature of the road. There had been some rain in the last few weeks and that was good for digging but bad on roads.

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