DWTH Day 38: Joshua Tree National Park!!!
Monday, March 10th, 2025, 0650-1740Pinto Mountains Wilderness mm 63.5 to Joshua Tree National Park, mm 84, Section 8, elevation 4100′20.5 miles. Coyotes woke me in the morning, the sweet sounds of the desert. It was cold when I started, only 39 degrees. I proceeded up the wash, which forked into a bunch of branches. I took a wrong turn at one of them and had to do a short up and over to get back in the right wash. Luckily it was pretty easy. A series of passes and washes repeated through the morning. The going became more tedious as the washes got pretty thorny, narrow, and rocky. I took yet another wrong turn and had to do a short[…]
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