2022-04-09, 07:08 AM
(2022-04-08, 03:40 AM)DeathValleyDazed Wrote: I'm anxious to view your trip reports, at least nine of them!
I wonder if the current war of Russia invading Ukraine has the military all abuzz with flight training increase?
I'll get around to it, I promise! But the only "discovered" hike I did on this trip, I would not recommend. Otherwise I was following other people's tracks the whole time. (Ha, I was literally doing some tracking to find some obscure beautiful petro panels in Utah). I am becoming increasingly concerned about environmental damage due to over use. One day we went up one of the "colorful canyons" Kauri documented near Ubehebe. Right at the canyon mouth, a side canyon came in. Navigation was not an issue, but on the way out we saw someone had built a five foot long stone arrow, out of distinctive light colored rocks on the canyon slope to indicate the proper canyon. We were tired and too far away to go tear it down, but that was sobering.
Coffin Peak is on alltrails and that means it is getting trashed. I see some attempts to mark a trail, and we tried to follow that as much as possible. I posted on their site to suggest people pay attention for small cairns and try to stay on track. It would be a good thing in the park service got some volunteers to actually mark a clear trail there, but they probably don't have resources for such.
Anyway, the jets. Yes the first few days I just waved away the noise thinking "Ukraine. Putin" but it wore me down.