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| Overlooking Piute Gorge |
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| Our intrepid hikers |
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| Assorted boulders and fake blue sky |
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| As the seagulls said in Finding Nemo,"Mine!" |
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| Photographer taking picture of photographer taking picture |
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| Approaching Piute Creek |
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| What appears to be a trail |
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| Watch out for that tree (branch) |
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| Scratched up rock |
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| At the ruins of Fort Piute |
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| Base camp with a nice view of the Granite Mtns |
2 comments:
There is "beauty," and there is "stark beauty," and then there is "stark" . . . .
I'm thinkin' . . .
And, what the heck is that contraption in the last shot, next to the tent? It looks like the rolling yard flattener that Hades would assign to Sisyphus.
That contraption would be a "tow behind dead weight roller" used for grading dirt roads--and there are a LOT of dirt roads in the Mojave National Preserve. (The dirt road in this case would've led to the nearby Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center).
Trip note: after hiking down into the gorge and bushwacking our way thru the Piute Creek thicket to reach the ruins of the old Army outpost, we were surprised and a bit put out to encounter a Jeep Club that had driven up from the "other side" and parked their vehicles less than 50 yards from the site.
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