Death Valley 2022/23

[Beardilocks]

After a day to resupply in Pahrump:  laundromat, grocery, Walmart, needed a spare pin for my sway bar at Home Depot, dropped off food at the animal shelter, and had a shower at a shady gas station that I think left me cleaner than when I went.  Not all that sure….

So after that I took a walk on the east side of the Black Mountains to find some petroglyphs. 




The hike was weirdly difficult on the way in. The soil was REALLY soft.  I hadn’t experienced that in DV before.  Every step sank 5-10mm and was very loamy.  Odd.  




















Very weird anthropomorph 



This one was the most fascinating to me.  Huge claws, weird glyphs at its feet, and the… heart or whatever LITERALLY popping it out of its chest.  So weird…,









To my experience so far, this is the 2nd largest (EDIT: within 2days of this post I hiked to two sets larger than this, I guess I have much to learn still… lol) I collection of nice petroglyphs I’ve seen in the park.  I wonder what else might be in the area….

I ended up racing the shadow of the mountain back to my truck.  A really weird feeling, the darkness literally chasing you like that.  I could feel the cold approaching.  Gorgeous view all the way out.