Death Valley Topix Trip Report and Photos

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hahahaahahhaaa! You will have some GREAT gear!
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Here's some of the glyph pics from the El Paso Range Joe and I went to after leaving Sunday morning:
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/556538752IllXnz
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Great photos everyone. Had a fun time on this trip. It was nice meeting a lot new folks and it was fun hiking out in the snow. Great photos everone. I finally got mine up. http://joeidoni.smugmug.com/gallery/2261177
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More great pics- thanks Joe. I can't believe how zoomed in ya got on the shark rocks. Even after walking all the way down there, mine still came out so tiny you could barely see them. :( I need to save up for a zoom lens.
Anyway, wonderful pics!
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great pictures for trailtrekker & mtnflyer

those rocks are known to us locals as "fish rocks" - you can see the road used to run right beside them - but when the road was redone they routed away.
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Great photos, both of you! Cool stuff! I just love that hawk, Joe! Looking forward to the others.


I'll be in Mammoth for the next two weeks but might get lucky and get a connection. I'll check in when I can!

Call if you want to hike! I'll have my cell on.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free . . . . Jim Morrison


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Post by MtnBykGirl »

I had an awesome weekend peak bagging with all of you. Thank you all for being so welcoming. It's been a very busy week for me and I haven't had a chunk of time to download and look at my pictures yet. But all of the pictures that have been posted here this week bring to mind many great memories of last weekend. A special thanks to Snow Nymph for letting me join your group and to Tomcat for leading us on a great hike to Argus Peak. I hope to join you again real soon!!!
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MtnBykGirl :D
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As you can seen from Sooz's pix from Towne pass the next morning the snow stuck above about 4k feet. When I got over to the Corkscrew area it was snow covered over there as well. Would have tried anyway except for two factors: 1) it was socked in with low clouds (CSS conditions) and I didn't have corkscrew's gps coord. loaded into my gps. On the other side of Daylight pass the snow was all the way down to the valley floor to well south of Beatty, quite the winter wonderland.
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Tomcat..Thank you so much for your trip report! I sure enjoyed reading it..sure sounds like a wonderful awesome adventure you all had. I would have loved to have joined in on this trip :crybaby: ..im hoping you all will do another late winter or spring DV adventure..would love to get to the desert again soon :D

Been enjoying everyone's beautiful pictures...pretty cool to get that snow I bet..looks beautiful there in the desert environment.
Thanks everyone for posting your pictures!
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ty Anita and everyone else for enjoying and commenting on my trip report. And thanks everyone for posting pictures too - they are memories that last a lifetime(I hope). look forward to another topix trip down the road - let the planners work their magic after the holidays.
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