Starting from a relatively lower and wetter area, to a peak with 360 degree views around.
I think Fallugia paradoxa:
Perhaps Eleodes in Tenebrionidae?
There were many of these rocks with veins running through them.
Lots of robber flies everywhere! These are apex predators in their own niche, so if there were that many of them, there were probably lots of bug life that evaded my notice.
At the top:
Panorama at the top:
Pygmy nuthatch
Lots of Syrphid flies
Looks like an elephant, a Ganesha / Ganapati look-alike
Bombyliidae, maybe Geron?
Chalybion californicum, I think, based on the shape of the head
Another robber fly
This fly belongs to Anthracinae in Bombyllidae
A skipper butterfly
I watched as the presumed Mirid bug crawled onto the lizard’s head. The lizard was not amused.
a little wild 
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