Fat Camp No.1
Tag: trona
Nirvana
Fat Ride Tin Pan Alley
Around the corner from Homewood it’s a good quick lap that usually turns into a trip to the airport back up through the draws and ends with a slog up the hill. Always worth the effort. Former mining site with a stone hut located exactly at the bottom of the drainage which always was a headscratcher with obvious repercussions. Creep up onto the ridge overlooking Homewood Canyon where one of the Barker boy’s planted a repeater for his terrestrial internet system. SMB named it and so it is Tin Pan Alley but I think the USGS has it on record as something else…
Cotton Belt Route Fat Ride
Merlin came down from the Great Wet North to dry out for a bit. We gathered our wits for a fat ride up to the dunes and on. Good loop up into the Slate Range foothills.
Poison Canyon Fat Ride
Couch Surfing
Wipeout at Pinnacles.
Slate Range Dunes Fat Ride
Nearly invisible from the Trona Wildrose Road. The dunes are collected on the lee side of a ridge midway upslope in the Slate Range. Prevailing winds frequently drop their load picked up from sources south and west of here. Nice spot for a picnic. Minimal garbage.
Mylar Balloon Count: 2
Petroglyphs on the Mojave
Only around 10,000 years old. Up on the plateau above Searles & Panamint Valleys in the Coso Rock Art District of the Mojave Desert. It’s a steep climb and there’s a bit of bouldering and scrambling and bushwhacking and stud piles dodging.
Mail Run
or Why’d the Tortoise Cross Homewood Canyon Road? Saturday, go get the mail PO Box 81 93592
Tanks for the help
Dad came up for a couple days. Survived the “guest house”. Helped plumb in Phase One of the water fiasco, er, project. Progress was made despite our best efforts.
Mylar Balloon Count: 0
