So what happened last weekend.... we went out to the dessert in scorching 90+ weather just to camp, hike, and climb. Despite the heat, it was pretty amazing that we didnt get as burnt as we thought we would... compared to 70+ weather at say disneyland. Does it have something to do with the fact that it was out in the wild, where the sun was unchanged by say pollutants in the air that "magnified" the power of the sun? I dont know much about the rest of you, but i tend to get sunburned while standing in line for the matahorn, or space mountain.
the night was chilling and we awake to wearing more layers then anticipated. but it soon changed as the weather made its way in the 90's. Sunblock was still a must however.
One of the trails led to a place of natives' "cave drawings." Three of us stared at the petroglyphs trying to make sense of them, if any. I spotted something that looked like a Nerf football. They didnt have Nerf footballs back then did they? well they had to come from somewhere... like the Chinese that invented spaghetti, and the koreans supposively
inventing "pizza." well. it was something. and if anything why was there a mermaid in the drawings? It was unlikely the natives would move across the land and go towards the sea to find such a creature.
As we made our trek across the dessert floor, our buddy MikeKoba (voice of seadoo guy and japanese business man) followed us and took many pictures of us walking. He might have 300+ pictures on his camera, and enough to make a time lapse of us crossing the dessert. If anything, it would help us in our bearings in case we got lost and lost our compasses.
This is by far one of my favorite photos i took during our trip. off the path of one of our trails, was an old mill, rusted, and under it was a geared mechanical pump, which was used to draw out water in its better days over 70 years ago.
The trails were fun and gave good muscle to legs. Kayyyyy however, needed help down little cracks and shimmys.
And while we were there.... we did some rock climbing.
No comments:
Post a Comment