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Memorial Day Weekend: Sombrero Peak
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tommy750 Posts: 1040
5/29/2012
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Since the temperature dropped so much this past weekend, figured I give finding the Solstice Cave and climbing Sombrero one more shot till it cools in the fall. Convinced the girlfriend to go and we were off.
After exiting in Ocotillo, remembered we'd never been to the Imperial Valley Desert Museum, so I whipped a U in front of the Lazy Lizard and headed south. The building is very nice but very empty. Spoke with their archeologist, Jennica, who's new to the Valley, but excited about commencing work on their large yet disorganized Indian artifact collection. Here's one of a cache of three ollas reported found "somewhere up S-2."
Olla by tomteske, on Flickr
Some type of shovel and pick. You can see the museum is in its early stages. Bought a pamphlet on geoglyphs located near Needles, joined the museum for $25 each and we headed north.
Shovel and Pick by tomteske, on Flickr
Saw some strange looking RVs as we drove toward Indian Gorge.
Memorial Day Campers by tomteske, on Flickr
We saw this yoni-maybe while headed up the initial draw toward the ridge.
Sombrero Yoni by tomteske, on Flickr
The view from the ridge toward the South Fork.
South Fork Indian Gorge by tomteske, on Flickr
Not too far away, heard a lot of buzzing and found this opening to a wild hive. There's 100 bees swarming into this crack, but can't see any in the pic and wasn't that motivated for a closeup.
Wild Bee Hive by tomteske, on Flickr
The GPS said 3.0 miles to the top and 1.8 down so it's not like we didn't look for that cave. By this point, we both had had enough and just wanted to get to the top. So, most likely we walked right past it.
Sombrero Peak by tomteske, on Flickr
Saw two morteros on the way down.
Sombrero Morteros by tomteske, on Flickr
Never tire of looking at the beautiful yucca flower.
Yucca Flower2 by tomteske, on Flickr
A nice dinner prepared on the tailgate as the sun set finished off the hike.
Indian Valley View by tomteske, on Flickr
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