Monday, March 28, 2016
Hour walk up the nearest mountainette fighting the wind a bit not to mention finding a route up through the rocks and cacti. Sharon took many flower shots and we almost made it to the top.
Explored local area on bike, wind still strong or stronger. Checked Hidden Valley camp and Key View then to town and library. Wind howling, light clouds. Sharon off looking for supplies. Got coffee, firewood and 16 new tent stakes. Girl at outfitters shop said that the wind would soon moderate and the other dude behind the counter who was a tourist teaser said, "It's the desert."
Wind still strong tent flapping but holding; added a couple of the new stakes anyway. Went for an 2 hour hike around dusk, built a fire chatted with the Thai woman next camp who was pretty unhappy with the whole camping in freezing desert America thing, ate something, drank something and went to bed. Woke myself at 3am to add fuzzy pants over jeans below t-shirt and 3 coats visited the outhouse across the road and crashed again; maybe I had several items from the pill box; can't be precise on that. It was a cold high desert experience; don't know how those cowboys survived.
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| Looking west from the park and down on the Coachella Valley, Mt. San Jacinto and Palm Springs on the left of the valley floor. |
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