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hikerdmb

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1/16/2011

hikerdmb

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We took a quick trip out for one night this weekend. This would be my wife's first camping trip since she had shoulder surgery about 2 months ago. To lessen bouncing around we did not go in the Desert TJ. We took our truck, but did not bother to put the pop up camper on the back. This allowed us to bring the wash tub and plenty of gear plus our dog Wylie. We left home in the early afternoon and were in Indian Valley by 4:00 PM on Saturday. It was surprisingly empty of people considering it was a three day weekend. There were some people there but not too many. We found a nice spot to set up our tent on the southern edge of the valley about a mile or so up from the fork in the road.

My brother showed up at sunset with his jeep and wife and daughter. We had a nice campfire and a good night sleep. It was not too cold at night and never had to even zip up my sleeping bag. Got up early and took a walk up toward the top of the valley in the wash that is on the very southern edge of Indian Valley. Sombrero Peak looked nice in the morning light from this low ridge on our walk.

There were a quite a few chuparosa plants blooming and a few of these, which I think is Parish goldeneye, and is also known as Parish's viguiera. But overall not many flowers and a little bit of grass under some of the bushes. The sand was quite dry here compared with the soil in the northern part of the park where I was last weekend.

Here is another view of our camp from up on the side of the hill behind our camp.

The best part of the trip was on the way out. We were about a quarter mile from leaving the gorge that leads into Indian Valley when we pulled up to some people looking through binoculars. Up on top of the ridge on the south side of the gorge, a few hundred feet above us was a bighorn ram. This is not a great pic since I had to zoom all the way in with my small point and shoot camera. But it was very cool to see him.

It was a nice trip, very low key. But a success first post op trip with some short hikes and sleeping on the ground for the first time in a long while for my wife.

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