Mountain Views and. short Visit by Chris Z.

 Thursday, February 12

The day started cloudy but cleared up nicely before mid-morning.

The lighting in the morning led to more practice on using the adapter for binos for my phone camera:

Cunningham Mountain and it's telecom towers:

1x zoom with binoculars 

3x zoom with binos

After lunch, I decided to see how close I could get to this nearby unnamed mountain:

Bino shot from campsite from a few days ago

Google maps didn't easily show the smaller trails so I ended up taking Pipeline Road and from there, a power line road and eventually down seeming unmarked trails.  Getting ever closer, going slow due to loose rocks / gravel / dirt that could make things interesting if you did not pay attention.

Using the rock formation as a guide, I eventually got pretty close:

I think the houses in the distance are in La Paz Valley

South of Quartzsite 

I took BLM Road 0061 (yep, found a marked tail junction) all the way back to civilization.  I missed the turnoff for La Posa South LTVA and ended up in La Posa North.  No problem, it's a short ride from it to the right LTVA and my campsite within.

Last views of today's mountain view destination:

Realizing that one can expand the last pic to get what's shown in the one before; which one is more attractive to your eye?

Friday, February 13

Chris Z of Blazeourway showed up in the afternoon to talk to the Bowen Custom folks re his new truck's flatbed that was made by Bowen.

Chris had bought it second hand and wanted to ensure it was installed right by the seller.  Fortunately, the Bowen team checked it out and declared it ready for travels.  The camper, by Alaskan, will be ready in about 3 weeks and Chris and Lori will drive their truck to WA to have Alaskan install the camper.

There's a Truck Camper Rally going on at Quartzsite, which explained Bowens presence in relative proxity to Chris and Lori's home in Meadview 

Here's the Bowen demo rig, quite the campus machine eh?

Chris talking to the Bowen team about the rig and some future work for his own truck 

Inspection completed, it was time for a drink by a small campfire back at camp: