mojave07

Sand Dunes, Lava Tubes, and Petroglyphs

Mojave National Preserve
November 10-11, 2007

This weekend Todd and I joined a bunch of folks from the So Cal Hikers Group for a car camping/day hiking trip out at Mojave National Preserve. Many of these people I'd known for years online but had never met in person so it was good to finally meet everyone! On Saturday Todd and I left at 8:00 and got out there at 10:30 - not a bad drive at all. We set up camp near Kelso Dunes then I took Todd to some petroglyphs near the lava flow on the Kelbaker Road that Jeffrey and I found last year. Saturday night we had a great potluck dinner with everyone. Especially wonderful were Ron's fajitas and Kathy's pasta salad :) We had a good campfire and lots of good conversation before turning in that night. On Sunday we took a 4wd road to the lava tubes and then hiked to a stunning collection of petroglyphs in Cow Cove. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my photos :)

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View of the dunes from our campsite

Sunset from our campsite

Cinder Cones and Lava Flows

Hiking to the Lava Tubes

There's no way we're going down there!

Here's a better way in, but it's a very rickety ladder. Kathy (wingding) goes first.

She makes it down!

Next goes Cindy

Ken (PolarBear), Juliette (Rdlswalker), and I made it down. Now here comes Ron (Sierraguy)

Going in the lava tube

Those are the holes we were looking down earlier

Gary tries to climb out but this hole is too small

Wingding, Allison, Steve, Naviguesser, Cindy, Polarbear, Sierraguy, Todd, Rdlswalker, Gary, Suze, me, and ? (sorry, I knew I was going to forget someone's name!)