Camping at Stovepipe Wells. Not what you would call a wilderness experience. |
The
start of the hike to the canyon. Annette, on the right, is stretching
out her back. The mountains in the background is where we're headed.
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We're hiking to the entrance to that wash in the left of the picture. |
The
dreaded Death Valley sticky ring plant. Come near that sucker and
you're covered in needles. Really horrible if a rope gets in one.
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Poor guy: a mountain sheep skull found in the wash. |
Annette making her way through the wash. |
Rich and Annette climbing out of the wash. |
The view from the drop-in point to, I believe, the Panamint Mountains. |
Starting toward the drop-in. |
Kevin leaping off the first big down-climb. |
Jerri working her way off another down-climb. She's so casual, she even held an apple in her mouth while executing the climb.
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Kevin rigging the rope at the first rappel.
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Jerri on the first rappel. |
Annette about step off the top of the first rappel. |
Rich on the second rappel. |
Jerri slipping midway down a rappel. |
I love taking pictures of flying ropes and flying rope bags. |
An
anchor on the third or fourth rappel. Jerri is backing up the anchor in
case it should fail (hasn't happened yet, but we don't like to take
chances).
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Rich finding his groove, so to speak. |
Rich working his way past a pit of despair, aka, a pothole. |
Another pothole at the bottom of the last rappel. |