Photo: Mel on trail JTNP Today we hiked in the park. We started out in the town of Joshua Tree for breakfast at the fabulous Crossroads Café. Our town guide was a bit behind the times and had the
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Category: CDT
Continental Divide Trail
Photo: Casa De Mojave Twentynine Palms Sunday is a catch all day to do journal posts, organize photos, name photos, ID wildflowers, and catch up on paperwork. Also, time to plan our next move. I may
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Photo: Desert Tortoise Got up early and headed out from the campground on an old jeep track. Lovely cool morning again, trail filled with wildflowers and loaded down with water! The first five miles
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Photo: Boulders on Mastadon Peak Trail Early in the a.m. we drove from the BLM camp to the border of Joshua Tree NP entrance near Chiriaco Summit. Yeti donned his pack and was going to do the 9.5
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Photo: Melanie & Petroglyph in Joshua Tree March 7 – 11 Indio – Chiriaco Summit, CA After leaving Borrego Springs, we went over to Mecca where the trail continued and were going to maybe stay
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Photo: Moon in the morning on Harper Flat Yeti and I had spent the night before in Bow Willow Campground, which was almost full. A bit of a surprise as the last time I’d been through there it was
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Photo is Final Climb to Red Cathedral View Point Friday & Saturday March 22nd, 23rd
Death Valley Hikes On Friday, Yeti and I did a fabulous hike in Golden Canyon/Gower Gulch. It was a loop hike.
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2024-03-17 to 21 - Picture is at Samuelson's Rocks, the First Message Karin and her husband Jim came to visit us in Joshua Tree. We had lunch at a Farmer’s Market and then did a hike in JTNP to
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Photo is the Small Dam we hiked thru a wash to get to 2024-03-16 Today Melanie & I did three hikes, first to Wall Street Mill where there is a stamp mill that one man was killed in a gunfight
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Photo from Hidden Valley - Note Birdlike rock near top
Joshua Tree RV Campground
Tues – Thurs, March 13,14 After our jaunt to Star Mount and another quick night in Indio, we headed to Joshua Tree.
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