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My dude. Come on.
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The Call of the Gulley
On a trail in Death Valley, wide and well-known,
A man got restless, tired of the zone.
"This is too easy," he thought with a grin,
And wandered off where troubles begin.
Up a loose gulley, he scrambled and slipped,
His footing unsure, his confidence dipped.
Stuck in that chute, he yelled till dawn,
The ranger arrived: "My dude. Come on."
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(2025-01-19, 07:29 PM)DAW89446 Wrote: SAR Mosaic Canyon 2025-01-15 - Death Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
A couple additional photos here: https://sierrawave.net/death-valley-nati...eep-gully/
Mistakes were made. Best judgement was ignored. Sometimes I feel lucky that I'm just too lazy to get into that kind of trouble.
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Mosaic can be deceptive. I had an "experience" there once. We were trying to get up to Twin Spring, which must be the main watering hole for the Tucki bighorn herd. I think we were actually following one of Digonnets dotted line routes. Anyway we got to the crossover from one of the upper canyon forks to the next one to the west. It was pretty loose as it went up out of the canyon bottom. Two of our party decided to not continue. My friend Eric and I did. He was ahead (as usual) and around a corner when the stuff I was standing on broke off and I started sliding. It was one of those hard slopes with lots of loose stuff on top. I was sliding on my belly, towards a 10 foot + drop off. Everything I grabbed just broke off. Eventually I stopped sliding but felt very unstable. Fortunately Eric heard me and came back and was able to perch on something solid to give me a hand and get off the loose crap.
I ended up fairly scratched up and bloody. We retreated. It would have been dicey had I been on my own.
I have not tried again to get to Twin Spring. Has anyone here made it up there?
