Death Valley 2022/23

[Kauri]

I’m very impressed how far you two were able to get up that side canyon, well done!!

Also sorry to hear about the repeated nasty falls. I should have mentioned to bring gloves on any hike in the Black Mountains; some of those rocks are knife-edge sharp. I’d typically bring leather work gloves on DV hikes and usually after about 3 weeks of use (equaling about two trips for us) the fingers would be totally destroyed. Better the gloves than my hands though! Also learned the hard way to wear thick work pants, and boots with leather upper parts. Falling and sliding through those little purple cacti, or sliding into a barrel or cholla cactus, then picking the thorns out of one’s skin, isn’t a lot of fun. Hopefully you haven’t had to do this yet!

Thanks again for sharing all the photos and data from the Hellfire main side canyon! Enjoying all your trip reports and photos!!