Sedona – Aerie Trail
Category: Desert
Searles Valley Flower Show
Upper Searles Valley Flower Tour. Once a year. Get out there before the Tortoises do.
Searles Valley Fat Ride
Great Falls Basin with Peter and Natalie.
Pleasant Valley with Merlin
Ray’s Place
Joshua Tree visit @ Ray’s place.
Solitude
Hike to the Russian Miner’s Cabin – Argus Range, California
The story I heard on this place is it was the home of a German (or Russian we’re not sure) fellow who was employed by The Plant in Trona to keep the water pipes from the numerous springs flowing to the plant. The hills were laced with 3 inch steel pipes that kept the plant operations running to extract mineral from the Searles Valley lake bed. At some point the plant’s water source was switched to a series of wells that were drilled north of the lake bed on the valley floor and I think they get water from Ridgecrest too via a large pipeline. Over the years people harvested the abandoned water lines and sold or re-purposed the material for home improvement projects such as fence posts.
Searles Valley Fat Ride
Spire of coarse sand made a good bike stand.
Mylar Balloon Count: 2
Searles Valley Fat Ride
Mylar Balloon Count: 1
Searles Valley Fat Ride
Mylar Balloon Count: 2
Golden Basin Fat Ride
Sage juniper high desert east of Bend Oregon.
Mylar Balloon Count: 0