2022-04-14, 07:59 PM
Today, Thursday, I went out to the Indian pass area. Indian pass road is an easy drive but high clearance is needed and probably 4WD too. The BLM road leading up to the national park boundary is full of that super soft and deep "poof dust" and getting stuck would be pretty easy. The whole area is littered with prospecting holes, and rock cairns. Are the cairns seen all around DV on random ridges used to mark the boundaries of mining claims? I have to assume that's what they were used for.
There are wide open views of rolling hills, some blooming cacti, and this impressive compass rose that somebody put a lot of time into.
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On the hike to Indian pass, I found the most complete bighorn skeleton I've ever found. Skull, full grown horns, and spine all intact.
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I didn't take any photos of Indian pass itself. It's strange that it's even called a pass in the first place because you'd have to downclimb a pretty serious dryfall to pass through it.
There are wide open views of rolling hills, some blooming cacti, and this impressive compass rose that somebody put a lot of time into.
On the hike to Indian pass, I found the most complete bighorn skeleton I've ever found. Skull, full grown horns, and spine all intact.
I didn't take any photos of Indian pass itself. It's strange that it's even called a pass in the first place because you'd have to downclimb a pretty serious dryfall to pass through it.