Inscription Canyon, Black Mt., Opal Mt. 1-10,11-09

We had been talking about Inscription Canyon for a year or so, finally planned to do it this weekend. Chip and I met Joe at the campground Friday night- late- we took a little detour. ooops. Robin arrived in the morning and we drove over to Black Canyon, then further up to climb Black Mountain(3941'). At some point realized I didn't have my boots, so I hiked in tennies! After Black, we drove up to Inscription Canyon to look at the glyphs. After that we found a nice site to camp at near Opal. We quietly celebrated Joe's birthday- he didn't want a big deal-(except we FORGOT to get a cake, which he would have loved-duh! 2 next year, Joe) and then Robin and I climbed Opal(3950') in the morning. Fun weekend!

We met Joe at the Owl Canyon CG the night before late, Robin arrived in the morning. We drove over to Black Canyon first.
Crouching sheep giving birth?
Men...or aliens?
I like the ones that are filled in rather than just lines.
Modern gylph
The trucks
Ready to hike Black Mountain
Silly shot
We dediced to follow up the canyon to start. We had the small lap top with us and it looked like the best way. Only hit one wall, easy to climb around.
Interesting experience hiking in my sneakers. Somehow I had forgotten BOTH pairs of boots! We didn't load up the truck the night before like usual. Came home after work and packed up rather in a hurry! OOOOOPps.
cimbed up a ridge, then back down to get around a wall.
The wash was easy and nice
Then we got into some rock piles off and on. Still fun
Benchmark location
Joe, Chip, Robin
Looking west, that's China Lake Naval Base out there a ways.
That's Opal over there, we'll camp over there somewhere and climb Opal either later or tomorrow. Still gotta see Inscription Canyon.
Joe
Us
Me
Chip
We decided to go down a different way, Robin pointe dthe way.
Heading down and eventually to the left.
The can at the cairn, had fragile papers inside, probably someones claim. Unable to read.
The cairn
in the wash, fun, seemed steeper than the way we came up.
more down
nice walls, we are almost down to the road
Joshua Tree
Now just about a half mile or so to the vehicles.
Old mining cave on the way to Inscription Canyon
Started to see stuff on the walls as we were driving. We were behind Joe and Robin so we pulled over to check these out. Pretty cool
Kind of an eagle looking thing
more stuff
big panel
in the canyon
cool
like this panel. Joe says it's the medicine man. I like the circles with dots.
squiggles
space ship panel
Robin taking a pic of damaged panel
more
snake and ??
?
same