Mojave desert

The Sheep Hole Mountains are a small range not far from Twentynine Palms in the Mojave desert. The highpoint of the range is just 4613', but getting to it involves a tough Class 2/Class 3 scramble. I did this with someone else and, because I'd just driven in, we got a late start and due to the time we had to turn around before we got to the top. There were also issues with finding the best route.

The boulders you see in the pictures are quite large even if it looks otherwise.

I'm going to try this again and report back.

This post should be filled with pics from Death Valley, except I went there during a heatwave so I wasn't going to do much hiking. The first day I just lounged around Furnace Creek enjoying the heat. In the shade, not exerting myself, the heat was really great. It was, per my car's thermometer, about 118F or 120F. Others, of course, might think that's a tad too hot.

The original Del Taco location is located in Yermo, not far from Barstow in the Mojave desert. Unfortunately it was closed the day that I was driving by.