I lost it yesterday. Slipped right out of the holster. Not too surprising given the brush we walked through.
So today we thought we would create a hike that partially overlapped with yesterday's trail to look for it. Vicky cleverly thought to look at all of our photos from yesterday so we could see the spot where we know we last had it. This eliminated some of yesterday's trail.
What we did was to create another awesome loop trail, this time far out into the canyon that loops around to our north and east sides. Our goal was to use our GPS to find the spot where we turned around yesterday, but by going a completely different route.
We walked about a mile down Grapevine Hills road to a wash. Then we went north on the wash for about a mile and a half. At one point we ran into a dry fall that we couldn't get down, and so we used an animal trail next to it to circumvent it.
Vicky at the bottom of the dry fall:
The animal trail we used to go around the dry fall:
After a mile and a half we turned east, knowing we had about two miles across the desert floor to the point where we had stopped on yesterday's hike. We went through several different types of terrain. It was a lot of fun.
We found the exact spot where we had turned around. We followed our route back to the camper, going slow so we could scan the ground for the bear spray canister. But no luck. We have some more of yesterday's trail to rehike tomorrow to see if it got lost there.
We will find it, we are confident. It can only be in one other place. And we got another great hike out of looking for it!
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