Wednesday Off Road Trip - part 2

Continuation of our off-road adventure...

After our stop at Cone's cabin, the route got a bit rockier...

Narrow with high center -- we had some scraping of the desert plants against the side of the Jeep -- "Desert pin-striping" it is called!

There were "outriders" (other more-experienced participants on the trip) who stopped at a couple of the more concerning ditches to make sure everyone made it through.

Here's a video of one of the ditches (you might hear some of our spoken-out-loud thoughts as we traversed it!):

At the next ditch, a few cars ahead of us, the line of vehicles came to a stop -- there was a car stuck in the bottom...

The helper-guy backed his Jeep up and pulled the stuck vehicle --

...it turns out that the length of the vehicle and its tow bar were issues:

Thankfully the Jeep is not long and we don't have a hitch ball attached to the back!

We stopped at another abandoned homestead -- I think they were having an "open house" and it appeared to be an "open concept" floorplan!

Our final stop was at an abandoned tungsten mine.

We stopped to eat lunch and explore around...

... we decided to hike up "Q" mountain (the hill that has the "Q" on it signifying "Quartzsite").

Tungsten mine across from us as we were hiking up Q mountain

Many of our group parked down there.

Top of the hill - one of the others in our group took our picture with the flag at the top.

Looking out toward the big tent.

Looking south past the tungsten mine and toward where we are camped in the Roadrunner area south of town.

Looking west -- we thought that this path down looked a little safer than the one we came up (the one we ascended had quite a lot of loose rock - hard to hike down for us).

Coming down the "safer" route -- it still required careful steps.

Carl ahead of me on the trail. This looks really flat, but it isn't - we still had to really watch our steps!

We enjoyed our off-road adventure, but think that once is probably enough for us! Our Jeep does not have very high clearance, and we don't want to risk damaging the property that God has given us stewardship over!