Death Valley Deep Dive 2024

[Beardilocks]

Here we have another undisclosed location.  I ask that any of you who have found this place to keep it to yourself.

I've explored much in this area and I am continually fascinated by what I find out here.  It's definitely not overflowing with items to discover.  But it seems that every time you're just about to give up you stumble across one more thing.  And that keeps driving you on. 

To my amazement, the first thing I stumbled across this time was this killer rock alignment. 



It's placed oddly on a slope and that made it very difficult to photograph.  I can't tell if the circle was intentionally left open or if gravity/erosion made it that way.


Sorry for the weird black-outs, but this is a very sensitive site. 





Very occasionally there are petroglyphs.


More often there are hunting blinds and odd short walls.  Lots of cairns, but I didn't get many pics of those. 





Very very interesting design here. 








Oddly I found a lost Nalgene up here.  Did you lose one up here MojaveGeek?


Very cool map-like petroglyph here. 


Extremely odd placement here.  A friend had visited this site 5 or 6 years ago and has a photo of this stone propped up vertically.  Now it seems that in the intervening years someone has come along and partially deconstructed a hunting blind to set up this rock like this.  Extremely weird thing to do. 

Again:  PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH OR MOVE THESE ROCKS.  We have no idea how important their positioning or angle is.  The context of this glyph is completely ruined now. 


I love when they wrap around the edges like this. 


Odd and rather larger rock circle.  Impossible to say if it was a rock alignment or served another purpose.  The slope makes a foundation for a temporary structure unlikely. 





I did report the rock alignment to NPS.  We'll see if I get any response this time.  I saw no NPS tags, so I don't think this site has been surveyed.  I'm hoping to one day make a comprehensive map of the whole area, if only because I'm fascinated by the randomness of it all.