Little Bridge and Lower Monarch Canyons

[Bluegreen kayak]

I spent two weeks in Death Valley last October/November; had a great time and a number of new-to-me experiences. I arrived at the campground on Sunday before a big windstorm hit; ended up triple-staking my tent and weighting it down with water bottles to keep it in place. What a night! Monday I hiked up Little Bridge Canyon and was happy that the winds didn't affect the canyon much. The bridge looked wonderful for my first visit, as did a large grey rock further up that I ended up napping on for a bit.



Coming back down and pausing to fix my shoe laces, I looked up to see this rock:

with three fossils in it! Another new experience, and one that impressed my granddaughter (she's 8).
   

Tuesday I went up Lower Monarch Falls canyon, which was quite a boulder scramble both up and down. There was water in the falls, but not very much.

There was also lots of mining camp relics around like these stove parts:

But my favorite was the really groovy rocks on the canyon wall: