Just checking out your newest trip. I just missed you. Hope to finally meet up with you on one of these trips. I see familiar faces in your pics. Spent several days from the 4th-9th in Saline. After 9-10 years of visiting the springs a new visitor was there one afternoon...a ringtail cat came down from one palm near the Wizard pool and up another all the way to the top. The ravens were upset with him up there but they could not persuade him from his duties.
I spoke with Major Tom about the salt from the lake and he believes the best quality was long ago and what's left isn't worth using in food but I too have brought it home but never used it.
Really enjoying your trip report. One evening after work I drove from LA with the goal of camping at the dry well and hiking out the next day to those dunes. The plan worked and later that day my friends joined me at Eureka. Very unique feeling camping so far away from anyone. I was solo for camping and my hike to the hidden dunes. Sometimes you see other vehicles, as you did, and if you don't have lights or a fire on at your camp they have no idea you're out there.
On the way home I finally checked out the Cinder Cone area near Fossil Falls. Very cool stuff.
Edited by ETAV8R, 15 January 2019 - 07:23 AM.
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