2022-03-24, 03:15 PM
(2022-02-26, 10:14 AM)Beardilocks Wrote: Thanks for the info/leads guys! Too bad we lost Steve's report. I'd love to see his maps for how far he got. Obviously the dream is to hike it all the way through. But that would take an act of Congress right now. Lol. So much cool stuff is lost on the base. I've found several old stage stops and complexes near springs recently (on satellite) that are just over the border on the base.
Officially planning a winter 22/23 trip and it will definitely include at least one long through hike if I can get in good enough shape. Lol.
Steve Hall backpacked from near the old radio tower, as if going to the Epsom Salts Works, however the group continued north towards "Wingate Dry Lake" and
then followed Wingate Wash all the way to the Split Cinder Cone area. So he technically backpacked all the length of Wingate Wash that is on public land.
(I remember that trip report well because it was the only one that I read in which Steve had encountered and reported a rattlesnake [sidewinder])