Death Valley Deep Dive 2024

[DAW89446]

I wish I had your job ... 

[DAW89446]

I assumed that Death Valley Deep Dive 2024/2025 would have begun by now. I guess Beardilocks and Brice have covered every square inch of DVNP by now and have moved on elsewhere ... 

[netllama]

I assumed that Death Valley Deep Dive 2024/2025 would have begun by now. I guess Beardilocks and Brice have covered every square inch of DVNP by now and have moved on elsewhere ... 

Indeed, the masses demand more !

[MojaveGeek]

I always get some good ideas from those guys, they really know the place. At this point I need to find "obscure" routes to satisfy my need for novelty in my annual trips out there. But right now I'm working up some hikes south of Tucson for next month's trip.

[Kauri]

I don't know if Brice will be heading back to DV this year. I do know that Beardy is currently otherwise occupied in a different desert part of the country, but I'm hoping he will be able to get back to DV in January or so since I too miss the frequent updates of new explorations. Hopefully when these two have time they'll update us forum folks with their plans.

[Brice]

I don't know if Brice will be heading back to DV this year. I do know that Beardy is currently otherwise occupied in a different desert part of the country, but I'm hoping he will be able to get back to DV in January or so since I too miss the frequent updates of new explorations. Hopefully when these two have time they'll update us forum folks with their plans.

I will not be back to DV this year, but I do hope to return one day.  I could climb mountains and explore the west until my legs fell off, but living in a small SUV full-time for years is hard and I needed a break.  So for the moment I've retired from the vagabond lifestyle and re-entered society. I'm not sure when I'll return, it depends on how the wind blows I guess.  I desperately want to finish my to-do list in DV but before that happens I need to take a few more hot showers and cook a few more meals in a real kitchen with a 4-burner stove, an oven, and a refrigerator.  Oh how I missed having a refrigerator...

[netllama]

I don't know if Brice will be heading back to DV this year. I do know that Beardy is currently otherwise occupied in a different desert part of the country, but I'm hoping he will be able to get back to DV in January or so since I too miss the frequent updates of new explorations. Hopefully when these two have time they'll update us forum folks with their plans.

I will not be back to DV this year, but I do hope to return one day.  I could climb mountains and explore the west until my legs fell off, but living in a small SUV full-time for years is hard and I needed a break.  So for the moment I've retired from the vagabond lifestyle and re-entered society. I'm not sure when I'll return, it depends on how the wind blows I guess.  I desperately want to finish my to-do list in DV but before that happens I need to take a few more hot showers and cook a few more meals in a real kitchen with a 4-burner stove, an oven, and a refrigerator.  Oh how I missed having a refrigerator...

Very understandable. Do you have any small duration trips planned elsewhere?

[Brice]

Very understandable.  Do you have any small duration trips planned elsewhere?

Not really.  I'm in Cheyenne which is a little short on outdoor fun, at least in the immediate area.  But I'm within striking distance of some nice places. I want to get into to the Bighorn mountains for the first time, bag Granite peak (Montana state HP), and probably check out the wilderness areas east and southeast of Yellowstone.  All of that will have to wait until next year's snow melt though.

[MojaveGeek]

I drove through the Bighorns once. They looked like fun but are a bit far from places I spend time (Colorado Front Range, Bozeman). There are some great back country hikes in Yellowstone, all sorts of geothermal features along with solitude - but you have to get through the main park mob though. You might get some ideas watching videos from CDT hikers. The Bob Marshall wilderness looks wild. I think you've been in the Winds? Montana, wow, so many mountains! And of course from Cheyenne you get the northern CO Rockies. Have you ever been in the Medicine Bows? I hear they are lovely and little used?

[Beardilocks]

Hello all. I am currently trying to wrap up training as an Arizona Site Steward volunteer. I’ve been assigned around 20 Native American Sites in the AZ Strip District that I’ll keep an eye on a couple of times a year.

I’ve tried signing up in CA, NV, & UT as well, but AZ was the only state desperate enough to take on a dirtbag like me. Lol.

I’m currently losing my mind after spending the last 2.5wks around Page and am ready to get rolling elsewhere.

BUT… I am also hosting a foreign friend for a good chunk of the winter and offering them my strange pathways across the west. I’m currently unsure of the timing and/or scope of that adventure.

I will be spending some time in DV (I have some very high priority targets I need to bag) but probably not the long 3-4mo I have been doing. But everything is a bit vague at this point.

With any luck I’ll be back next year for another deep dive but Lord only knows what can happen. The horrors persist but so do I.