January 17, 2014 Death Valley

Judy joined us early and we hiked Moonlight canyon.

It is a mile up the alluvial fan, and 1000 feet elevation to get to the canyon. There were these cool palisades in the canyon.

This is the spring, kind of  seep in the wall. These were two of the ‘waterfalls’. It was packed with mountain sheep tracks and sign, even a few bones. A red fall on another wall.

At lunch Judy was relaxed. On the way out we could see the different valley’s down the canyon in the evening light.

Judy cruising out by the palisades. Looking back at the mouth of the canyon. The white stripes are the spring. If we had had a couple of days it looked like a few more miles up the canyon it got really interesting, but we would never have made it back by dark. Perhaps another trip.

Sheep tracks at the spring, salt on the ground by the spring, a dried plant kind of hexagons, and flowers by the spring.

We attended a reception at Furnace Creek Inn for an event Judy is signed up for. It is for Inyo county and put on by the same people who put on the fruit cake festival, so we all knew each other by our costumes from the festival. In the past when we had dinner at the Inn we always have our picture taken in front of the fireplace. So Judy, John and I did, and I was looking at these cool bathrobes in the gift shop, there were only two left, so Judy bought them for us. Mine for my birthday (In July)