2024-04-23, 02:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-04-23, 07:09 PM by MojaveGeek.)
Day 7 stayed hot. Getting to be a theme, as we seemed to be at the cusp of the sometimes sudden transition from winter to spring temps. Our plan was to walk the closed road that runs from below daylight pass over upper Monarch and on to Chloride. When we got there, we found the road actually open, with some grading having been done, so we drove in a ways. We hiked up a nameless peak with great views for the effort, a true geezer's peak.
![[Image: dv24_791.jpg]](https://web.media.mit.edu/~geek/webpix/dv24/dv24_791.jpg)
![[Image: dv24_792.jpg]](https://web.media.mit.edu/~geek/webpix/dv24/dv24_792.jpg)
![[Image: dv24_798.jpg]](https://web.media.mit.edu/~geek/webpix/dv24/dv24_798.jpg)
Day 8 was still hot. We went back to Greenwater Valley to find the Funeral petros and climb the peak. I'd been up the peak before, but not seen the petros back then. There was some other rock art seen on this trip that I have not written about, but these are well known, so a pic is not out of line.
![[Image: dv24_812.jpg]](https://web.media.mit.edu/~geek/webpix/dv24/dv24_812.jpg)
I was able to find a hint about these petroglyphs online, and it turned out that based on one photo I was able to set a waypoint on my GPS which ended up being off by 15 feet after 2.5 miles. I might have just been able to walk to them knowing what types of rocks were attractive to the artists but worth noting that it is hard to keep secrets online
It is a long slog up Funeral, not particularly steep but sometimes you have to work around fields of frustrating basalt (?) boulders.
![[Image: dv24_807.jpg]](https://web.media.mit.edu/~geek/webpix/dv24/dv24_807.jpg)
The views are nice though! It's fun to get to the summit and look down onto the salt flats, but we just ran out of time and had to be satisfied with what we got to the east, and of course all of Greenwater Valley.
![[Image: dv24_809.jpg]](https://web.media.mit.edu/~geek/webpix/dv24/dv24_809.jpg)
Day 8 was still hot. We went back to Greenwater Valley to find the Funeral petros and climb the peak. I'd been up the peak before, but not seen the petros back then. There was some other rock art seen on this trip that I have not written about, but these are well known, so a pic is not out of line.
I was able to find a hint about these petroglyphs online, and it turned out that based on one photo I was able to set a waypoint on my GPS which ended up being off by 15 feet after 2.5 miles. I might have just been able to walk to them knowing what types of rocks were attractive to the artists but worth noting that it is hard to keep secrets online
It is a long slog up Funeral, not particularly steep but sometimes you have to work around fields of frustrating basalt (?) boulders.
The views are nice though! It's fun to get to the summit and look down onto the salt flats, but we just ran out of time and had to be satisfied with what we got to the east, and of course all of Greenwater Valley.