A couple of us spent the next
couple days hiking. The first day's hike, which was about 6+ miles, was
Pushwalla Pass, a relatively unused trail found at the end of
Geology Tour
Road.
. The
hike is moderate terrain that ends with a final push up to Pushwalla Pass at
5100 ft. Along the way there are some really cool artifacts (like this miner's
well 
) and some amazing plant life
.
2.5 miles into the hike, we decided
to veer from the trail and follow an old unmarked trail up the side of the
adjacent hill. To our surprise we stumbled upon on an old miner's camp
and
another well
which was being christened by
Aaron 
providing us with his best Nixon
imitation. Along the way we also found some bones of a deer.
The views from the pass were
magnificent
, and I had one of my more creative
moments when I compiled the panoramic shot seen above
and a second less detailed one.
After spending some time chowing down a
PB &
J sandwich and freezing my butt off, I hiked back down the trail. Along the
way we found some more joshua trees
.
Finally, we reached the bottom
again 
and started our trek back to the main road via
Bent's super SUV .
Along the way we found some cool ass rocks
,
especially this group that seemed to be so pissed at us that it had to give us
the finger.
We also found one of the biggest joshua trees
we had seen on the whole trip, so
I asked Bent, Amy, Laura, Aaron and Chris to let me take a group photo of them
in front of it.
All in all this was a very fun
hike, and I'm glad we spent the time to do it.