A walk to the Cargos….

 

Our Location:

Ogilby Road, Winterhaven, California 

Not the best nights sleep but I was still out the door by 7:15 am and my feet carried me across the desert floor to the copper mine I found last year. I once again found my way easily and managed to make it there and back in about 2 hours, over 12,000 steps. I was happy to be home. 

The greenish colour is oxidization. Very colourful, don’t you think?

The walk is long but it was interesting.

A coffee while resting in the sun and then we headed off to town for a few errands. A stop at Fry’s grocery store, some diesel and we were back home in time for happy hour. 

Sunrise.

Some of the views on my stroll.

We parted ways again just as the sun dropped below the horizon and all headed inside to do our own stuff. Plans are afoot for tomorrow though.

The Imperial Sand Dunes in the morning sun.

Looking back toward home from the path to the mine.

We are parked out there.

I took this on my homeward bound trek, but that is where I walked to the mine.

Today’s pics were all taken this morning before 9:30 am. I hope you enjoy the stroll.

Until next time……

Take care, stay safe,

Deb

Another peak into the Cargo Muchacho Mountains....

 

 Our Location: 

North of MM4, Ogilby Road, Winterhaven, California

A nice day today but still overcast to a certain degree, we have some blue sky to the north but no sun, although it looks sunny over by the dunes, just not here at our home dirt. 

Sunset, Dec 3

The billowy clouds look so soft.

The sky was on fire and soon after this shot it was dark.

Another short drive and then a walk for me again this morning, with no threat of rain I wasn't worried about getting caught some place that would be dangerous. So after parking the Dogsled I headed back in a different direction than I went the other day, a bit more to the north. 

You can see the ghost of a trail on the left that I followed the other day. I zoomed in to see it.

That low point in the middle is where I climbed to a few days ago. It's much farther away than it looks.

The paths are not always easy and many are washed out in places.

If you ever want to feel insignificant just climb around near the mountains. They tower over a person and it makes you realize just how fragile humans really are. The force of nature be it wind, water, heat or cold can have an amazing affect on the mountains. The wind and water wear away the stone gradually but it is always working at it. The heat and cold do much the same thing but in a different way, causing cracks and breaking rocks free waiting to fall or slide down with the merest hint of pressure. A very humbling experience to tread on foot into those mountains. 

Sometimes  parts of the roads are pretty good.

Fog on the mountain top over there near the old open pit mine.

The blueish colour is tailings from the open pit mine.

We are enjoying our time here and I'm looking forward to a few more hikes as well. I've found I can't hike like I used to as it bothers my hip and makes me less smiley.  It's one of the reasons I take the Dogsled part way.  My usual step goal is 6000 which is enough to let me continue to be useful for the rest of the day. Today just my hike alone was 10,000, which for me is just under 4 miles/6.4 km, in 1 1/2 hours. That's more than enough so I'll be just putzing the rest of the day.

I  noticed this opening around the corner.

No idea, didn't go inside.

Paint? Turquoise? It was only in this one little spot.

Doug ( Miss Adventure Travels ) & Yuma plan on coming by later today for a visit, some time this afternoon he said. It's always nice to visit with folks and Yuma likes our company, probably more than Doug does.

Like sandwiches stacked up, but it's rock.

The results of nature.

A closer look at what the mountains actually look like. The white lines are veins of rock.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed the photos. 

I didn't go any farther.

I had to use the zoom out feature on the phone to get the height in, it was on both sides from where I was standing in the photo above.

I turned around and this is what I could see.

Until next time....

Doug and Yuma

Take care, be safe, 

Deb

Photo blog...

Our Location: Near American Girl Mine Road, BLM, CA

 

A photo blog tonight. These photos have been accumulating for the past few days. I'll share them with you. 

 The next few photos were Christmas Eve sunset here in our little part of the world.

No enhancement of any kind  was used on these sunset photos. This is how they came off of the camera.

Riley and I took a ride over to American Girl Mine Road on Christmas Day, we noticed this camper. Yes it is an old ambulance, now someones home on wheels. 

 

 

 Also on Christmas Day we ventured out to Indian Pass Road for a look around. 

Yes those are campers down there. Peter I thought of you when I was editing these photos. There are three separate rigs in this area, it is past the two bigger washes,(which are very close together) and I was curious as to how difficult it would be to get the Igloo in and out of there. It's much larger and heavier than any of the rigs we seen. 

 

 

 I just love the vastness of the sky.

 This is sunset Christmas night. 

It topped off a very nice day for us here off Ogilby Road.  Again no enhancements.

 

 

 The next few photos were taken out our door on Boxing Day (Dec 26) before the rain came. 

 No enhancements of any kind in these three photos. It's how they came out of the camera. We've heard rumours that those are fellow Canadians over there but we haven't yet met them. 

 Sunset on Dec 26/Boxing Day here on Ogilby Road.

As they came out of the camera. Pretty impressive don't you think?

 All the remaining photos were taken today on Indian Pass Road. 

 I believe this is a Teddy Bear Cactus or Cholla (choy- a). You can see all the many babies it has dropped and they too are starting to grow. We don't have any of this kind of Cactus on our section of Ogilby Road.

 We have been walking now for a while and decide to check out that arroyo/wash over there. We drove the Dogsled well down Indian Pass Road but parked it so we could do some walking as well.

 Left overs from the rain on Dec 26/Boxing Day.

 You can tell where the arroyo/wash runs by all the green. 

We followed the sandy bottom for about 15 minutes. A few tracks since the rain, and what I assume are burro tracks as there is lots of burro droppings on the sand.

 The desert is turning green in places. 

 

 Those are burro tracks or at least I assume they are. In the sand there is no definition to be seen but they certainly aren't people tracks and with the burro droppings often in the tracks, I think it's a safe guess.

The Cargo Muchacho Mountains with a very large dark cloud hanging overhead. The Igloo is parked on the other side of those mountains, we are driving along Indian Pass Road. 

 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you had a fantastic day. 

 

Until next time... take care, be safe, 

 

Deb