 | | Our first break of the day, we always stop here. There's a nice little rise just out of the parking lot and it catches folks by surprise...
Coyote Mtns, CA
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 | | Time for class! Bust out the maps, it's landnav time. Time to dayhike and get out of the sun. It's starting to beat down.
Windcaves, Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Jeff's hole in the wall crash pad with his possessions strewn about. Guess who's a grad student?
Windcaves, Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | The start of our dayhike in the canyon.
Coyte Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Here we are looking for some shade, it's lunch time. Unfortunately looking is means more walking because there isn't shade in the desert at high noon.
Coyote Mts, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | So Jay and Marc didn't seem to get the memo. This is a hiking outing, not flower and fauna. That includes animals. And rocks. Ha! They stopped to take a picture of every rock they saw. Yeah, there's a lot in the desert. Hey look, this one is really heavy! um... cool. (ha ha) So anyways this is a lizard, a horned toad one. To be honest i've never seen one before and wouldn't have unless they stuck their head under every rock they saw : )
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Rocks. This picture is here for any european that stumbles to this site. We southern californians take this for granted but we know you get off on this stuff.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Can you tell it's Chad's turn on the hot seat? Everyone else gets to goof off. I gotta work on that next year, spread the pain out more!
Carrizo Badlands, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Chad's job was to take us to here. Yeah, it doesn't look like much but it get's cooler in a few feet.
Lance's Crack, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Anne making her way through the slot canyon.
Lance's Crack, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Jay and Anne negotiating the slot.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Breaktime! It's hot here, there's a heat wave going on. Low 90's today. This is 30 sec before Chad gets his ass kicked by the group for giving away the ending of a move...
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | We got a jumper! Julie on the top of the windcaves surveying her minions (like she did at the oyster rocks to do some landnav)
Windcaves, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Free admission to the gun show! Here's Chad admiring the hardware and Palmoma averting her gaze all demure-like.
Windcaves, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Um... i'm not sure what to say or even where to begin with this one. Geez, Jay, put some pants on.
Windcaves, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Babies need to sleep too. *snore* Wha? Huh? Nevermind Kennon, go back to sleep. Gimpy. This is the guy who gives me shit for being too old. Little f*ker : )
Windcaves, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | The late afternoon view from our campsite.
Windcaves, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Our campfire!
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | So we backpacked out a mile and dropped out stuff to do a less-hot dayhike. Like that was possible with upper 90's temps but we gave it a shot.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | I guess i missed out on some of the activities last night.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Cutting out the planned portion and trusting Jay and Marc for another hike.. the first thing they do is get us climbing this...
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Peek-a-boo! Stef in a way cool slot.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Stef and Julie. Julie's snack apparently isn't all that agreeable.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | View of the slots from inside...
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Navigating a slot-slot intersection.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Feet'n'hands to the top! The crumbly mud hills make hard going.
Mud Hills, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Yup, there ain't much there. But those little cracks go way down! The slot we were in was one of them.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Upper 90's and climbing uphill sucks.. wind. Here's contestant #1 demonstrating the proper breathing technique.
Mud Hills, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | The group looking for a spot to get down from the mud hills. Or more truthfully blindly following Jay and Marc who've been here before.
Mud Hills, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | So crazyman Jeff jumped down the steepest section of the hill. The sane people walked (see pic) to a less suicidal point to slide down.
Mud Hills, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Me and Kennon making our way down. It's not so bad from this point of view. Just to go the top and look down : )
Mud Hills, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | Jeff's view of the action.
Mud Hills, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | A quarter mile diversion to our keystone lunchspot.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | So on the way back we had a nice little dry water fall to climb up.
Coyote Mtns, CA
save file: small medium large |  | | The gang at the end of the hike! Thanks for changing my tire! (it wasn't me!)
Coyote Mtns, CA
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