Overnight on Villager Peak

  • Posted by Andre
  • March 2, 2008

img_6726Villager peak is much higher and tougher than it looks from below. Starting at 1:30 pm we did not have enough time to reach the peak before sunset and it took 30 minutes of cactus-avoiding-scrambling in the dark to locate a flat spot. With no tent we didn’t waste any time jumping in our down bags consuming leftover chicken and sipping tea under marvelous starry skies. Around 9pm the air went from dead quiet to a ferocious wind storm in the blink of the eye. The rest of the sleepless night was spent sinking deeper and deeper into our sleeping bags trying to keep the blasts of cold air at bay. The hike down started early the next morning with the dreadful wind trying to push us off the narrow ridge. Beautiful views of the Salton Sea on one side and Clark Dry Lake to the other kept us grinding away at the 14 mile roundtrip. Fun, really!

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Doug Lock
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March 3, 2008 at 9:56 pm

Such an adventure. You sure do get out and do some great things. I have heard that the last stand of elephant trees in California exists on the slope of the mountains east above Clark dry lake. Someplace between where you were camped and the dry lake itself. Have you discovered them yet?

Doug Lock