01-31

Last Sunday, we took a ride with Becky, Dennis, Suzanne and Roy to the Plomosa mountains. (See blog for Monday Jan 25.)
While we were out there following one of the trails we came to a tree across the road.
It was late in the day so we decided to leave the tree and come back another day to remove it and follow the road to the end.
Well, yesterday we went to do just that. When we got to the spot where the tree had been, some one else had removed it for us. :o)
We followed the trail to its terminus at a deep gully




with some interesting features. Much of the bed rock was exposed in the bottom of the gully and in the rock were many large holes. Some had water in them with sand or gravel in the bottoms. We thought that this would be a good spot to do some prospecting. No one had any tools or gold pans so we just looked the area over with an eye to coming back in a few days with proper tools to see what could be found.

I am sure that everyone who comes out here has the same idea but you never know and
it is a perfect excuse for an other foray in to the desert, eh (Canadian influence).
On the way back we checked out some other trails. One took us to a Wild life watering station where we decided to stop for lunch.

After lunch we stared back toward "Q". As we drove along I could see an interesting canyon to our left and kept an eye out for a trail going up the canyon. Soon we came to such a trail and turned onto it. The track wound around and over a few low hills, through a few washes and eventually ended far back in the canyon.

As always the scenery was wonderful.
Here are a few random shots for your enjoyment;


It may be a little hard to tell but there is a large hole through the bottom of this rock.

We had another fine day with friends playing in the desert.