Your excellent photos are strangely and eerily beautiful. In a different context you could have shown me the first three photos and told me it was the moon and I would have believed you. I have not previously seen photos of that terrain.
Some of your photos could be enlarged and printed on high quality paper and sold in desert museums.
I wonder how many people have ever explored that area?
Thanks for the kind words, Harvey.
Many of the trails I've ridden haven't been used for a loooooong time, tire tracks are barely visible on some of them. And it's the desert, tracks last a very long time out there and why it's strictly forbidden to go off road, even a vehicle width unless you meet incoming traffic. So if you guys choose to ride out here,
PLEASE make
no new tracks, the feds are looking for excuses to permanently close areas, and they do so regularly. Unlike back east where things grow back every season, it takes centuries for recovery out there.
Watch that first step, it's a doozy.
I rode that road in October - (blue track in the next photo)
The topo showed that there was a road above (orange), I had to get there, it drives my exploration curiosity.
I was at the red arrow, looking down at the blue one. The trail is stopped there by a rockslide.
Parked at the blue arrow -
Looking up at the red arrow. It's already calling my name. 😍
The rockslide at the blue arrow is a big ole NOPE -
Looking down to the blue arrow, mission accomplished.