#coso mountains

[thorsenmark]

Ravens Observing Us Humans at a Rest Stop by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Two of a group of about 5 ravens I noted at this rest area stop on a drive up to Lone Pine along US Hwy 395. My thinking in composing this image was to have the ravens more or less image center and then pull back on the focal lane to include some areas around as part of the setting. That would be the grassy area, a picnic bench and finally a guy walking his dogs. All under the watchful gaze of ravens.

[nolonelyroads]

OS Zoomorph Panel, AZ. An especially detail-packed panel that is most likely Patayan (around 700-1900CE) or Hohokam (around 1-1500 CE) in origin, maybe both. I say that because this area had some heavy overlap of habitation between the two, and their rock art styles share numerous similarities. Many of these glyphs could be considered Gila Representational Style (attributed to the Hohokam), but I can’t really differentiate these from most Patayan imagery. It ain’t easy, folks! I will say the large zoomorphs remind me of Coso Style, which can be found over 450 miles to the west.

Slide 1: Notice the large Snake that looks like it’s touching an upside down (dead) zoomorph on the far left edge of the photo.

Slide 2: Very similar to Coso Style zoomorphs.

Slide 3: I’m seeing a leopard or mountain lion here. Large paws, long tail, round ears, and what looks like spots on the body. Could also be a dog.

[inkymink]

Basalt formations and Coso Range mountains. Fossil Falls, California. 18 Nov 2019.

[dickotomia]

2, 5, 8 , 14, 24, 32, 29 por el coso de meowsica :3c

Gracias miuuu 💕

2. An album which you wish you could hear again for the first time

How I'm feeling now - Charlie xcx

5. Name an album you feel is perfect

I'm wide awake it's morning - Bright Eyes

8. Name an artist/band that isn't touring at the moment who you'd really like to see in concert

Esta pregunta tiene una sola respuesta posible y es sufjan

14. Is they any band/musician who you really strongly dislike? If so, why?

Eh no sé si strongly strongly tipo estoy muy en una etapa I could see the good in anything :-) dicho esto I do hate todos esos temas de pseudo country pop que escuché en el hot 100

24. Name a song that you associate with being angry

Up the wolves - the Mountain goats

29. Is there any song that you mostly like but there's one specific part of it that you don't like as much?

Nate Ruess el cantante de fun. (from we are young fame) tiene un disco solista de 2015 que sería excelente si no estuviera cantado de la forma más rara posible, encima tiene alto rango en vocal pero it all sounds like his famous feat on just give me a reason by p!nk

32. What is a band/artist that you really wanted to start listening to but you just couldn't get into it?

I really want to like perfume genius and angel Olson but I can't get what's so great about them

[sgokie2024]

Owens Peak

Elevation 8,453 ft

View from the local Albertsons

Ridgecrest, is surrounded by four mountain ranges:

The Sierra Nevadas on the west, the Cosos on the north, the Argus Range on the east, and the El Paso Mountains on the south.

[whitepolaris]

Which Came First, the Spark Plug or the Rock?

Debate has raged for over thirty years about a twentieth-century artifact discovered in a half-million-year-old rock. Skeptics and believers are still arguing about it more than forty years after it was found in the Coso Mountains. 

On February 13, 1961, Wally Lane, Mike Mikesell, and Virginia Maxey made one of the strangest and most inexplicable archaeological finds in California history. While hunting for geodes, one of the three picked up a brown rock near the top of an unnamed 4,300-foot pea, twelve miles southeast of Olancha. Geodes are generally round (sometimes cigar-shaped) rocks with hollow interior stuffed with mineral crystals. They are highly prized by collectors and dilettantes alike, and specimens that contain amethyst are worth many hundreds of dollars. The three rock hunters had set out to find some specimens for their store in Olancha and were targeting a peak in the Coso Mountains just six miles northeast of their shop. 

After a good morning’s collecting, the trio dumped their finds into a sack that Mikesell was toting and headed home. The next day Mikesell pulled a likely-looking, fossil-shell encrusted specimen out of the bag and went to work with a diamond saw. After the blade was nearly ruined, the rock split apart, revealing what looked like a porcelain cylinder surrounding by a shiny metal rod. It also contained what looked like a washer and a nail. 

The trio sat on the discovery for a while, but early on, Maxey spoke to a geologist who informed her that the rock encasing the apparently artificial object would have taken 500,000 years to form. Maxey was at first quoted as declaring the find “an instrument as old as Mu or Atlantis. Perhaps it is a communications device or some sort of directional finder or some sort of instrument made to utilize power principles we know nothing about.” 

To this day, the bizarre artifact defies explanation. The few who have tried at all say it’s clay-coated piece of mine machinery debris; this is unlikely, since the “Coso Geode” was found several miles from the nearest mine shafts. At any rate, clay concretion process don’t happen in dry, rocky desert regions like the Coso range. 

Sometime in the mid-1960s, Ron Calais, a scientist with a heavy creationist bent, was allowed to examine the Coso Geode. He took pictures and X rays of the cut halves, which was a great stroke of luck when the object later went missing. The X rays showed a cylindrical structure with a metal ring at one end and a flared metal cap at the other. A threated screwlike area topped the assemblage. 

In 1969, International Fortean Organization (INFO) journal editor Ronald Willis published a careful and thoughtful article on the Coso artifact. In the article, Willis followed the skeptical but interested style of Charles Fort, an early twentieth-century chronicler of the unexplained, Willis commented on the structure of the anomalous object, but stopped short of calling it an advanced piece of technology from a lost age. He simply wrote that the object was “the remains of a corroded piece of metal with threads.” He finally went out on a limb and guessed that the thing might be a spark plug. 

Creationists soon latched on to find, since if authentic, it calls into question the ordered pageant of history that mainstream science has presented to us. It was a prime example of an OOPArt (Out Of Place Artifact) such as the Crystal Skull and what appeared to be an ancient battery discovered in Iraq in the 1950s. 

In the late 1990s, various magazines reopened investigations into the Coso artifact. They looked at the claims of researchers such as Donald Chittick of the Institute for Creation Research, who started with the premise that the rock was in fact a bone fide geode. Skeptics pointed out that just because the original rock-hunting trio was looking for geode did not necessarily mean that they found one. Since there were other modern objects (the nail and washer) embedded in the surface, along with fossil shells, this indicated that the rock may have been covered with mud sometime between 1910 and 1930, picked up by hitchhikers, and finally hardened in the desert sun. 

Pierre Stomberg, a skeptic, contacted the SPCA (that’s Spark Plug Collectors of America) and asked them to look at the X rays. President Chad Windham responded with a letter and two examples of Champion spark plugs from the 1920s. Everything matched up, allowing for corrosion of the metal and other components. The creationists responded that certain parts of the “spark plug, particularly the spring or helix terminal . . . do not correspond to any known spark plug today.” However, many readers of the Creation Outreach Web site tended to agree with the skeptics. So much for faith. 

There are plenty of other OOPArts to keep the revisionists busy, many of which are much harder to explain. That’s fortunate, because the spark-plug-in-a-rock is no longer around for investigation. Perhaps it has returned to the space-time transient realm from whence it came. The Coso artifact was on display for a while at the Eastern California Museum in Independence, but was reclaimed by its owner in 1969. After forbidding any further dismantling or examination of the relic, he tried to sell it for a reported $25,000 but couldn’t find a buyer. 

Recent attempts to trace the owner, the original finders, or the geode have been unsuccessful. All that’s left of this strange archaeological anomaly is are a few photographs, yellowing accounts in some obscure journals, and a tantalizing archaeological mystery that may never be resolved to anyone’s satisfaction. 

[pilmmalawmarketing]

Good help is hard to find.” That’s what we hear from law firm owners all across the country. If you are struggling to hire and retain good talent for your firm, you are not alone.

So, what is the SOLUTION?

While there’s no magic bullet to erase all your hiring woes, there is one great thing about being a business owner in 2022;

More and more Millennials and Gen Zs want to work remotely, which means your potential hiring pool has grown exponentially.

Studies have shown that many Millennials and Generation Z’s value “work-life” balance highly- sometimes ranking higher than salary, and other incentives. This was the trend even before Covid struck.

After COVID sent businesses scrambling to implement remote operations, many of these workforce demographics realized that working from home gave them significant built-in work-life balance. And so the hiring dynamic has shifted dramatically.

Employees forced to work remotely after COVID realized they liked it. They liked being able to ditch the lengthy commute. They liked the convenience of working in their sweats or pajamas. They liked saving money they’d previously spent on lunches, work wardrobes, and gasoline. They liked hanging out with their kids or pets. They liked the freedom to work from the mountains, the beach, or a cabin in the woods.

For whatever their reasons, the current stats show that many people appreciated the benefits of remote employment and don’t want to return to brick and mortar spaces.

It’s the same for many employers. Dell, for example, saves a whopping $12 million

dollars a year in office space expense by employing a remote workforce.

One Atlanta lawyer told me she closed up her brick-and-mortar office after the initial Covid shutdowns and refused to reopen the office space because her firm is operating quite successfully remotely. She is saving money and experiencing increased productivity. For her and many other business owners, going remote, or allowing employees to continue remote or semi-remote employment, has become a win-win.

While hiring staff or attorneys to work remotely was virtually unheard of before COVID, we’ve all seen that law firms can successfully operate remotely. Being cloud-based, having an effective case management system, phone system, as well as company-issued laptops and desktops – and using programs like docu-sign have enabled law firms to successfully represent clients, and sign new clients from remote spaces. The implementation of these innovations has changed the business world. For many companies remote or hybrid remote operations is the new normal.

Here are a few interesting statistics:

According to Upwork, by 2028 73% of all departments are expected to have remote employees.

According to Buffer, 99% of people surveyed would choose to work remotely for the rest of their life, even if it was just part-time.

77% of remote workers surveyed by Coso Cloud said they were more productive when working from home.

Better work-life balance is the main reason why people chose to work remotely, according to Owl Labs recent study.

A whopping 69% of millennials would forgo other work benefits in favor of flexibility working opportunities. (CBRE)

According to TECLA’s recent study, 6 out of 7 managers polled believe that hybrid teams of remote and in office employees will be the norm in the future.

64% of recruiters polled by IWG believed that being able to pitch a work from home policy helps them find high quality talent.

And here’s a BIG Statistic for RETENTION: According to Owl Labs’ recent study, 74% of workers say that being able to work remotely would make them less likely to leave a company.

Stanford University research in 2017, showed that the number of resignations dropped by 50% in companies that provided remote work opportunities.

And the last statistic: Based on research conducted by Global Workplace Analytics, since 2009 the number of people who work from home has risen by 159%. It’s a trend that is dramatically on the rise.

Why not use this workforce pivot to your firm’s advantage?

Instead of struggling to hire employees in your immediate market, you now have the opportunity to hire qualified candidates from anywhere on the globe for many of your current positions.

[thehikingviking]

Coso Range, Ophir Mountain & Darwin Benchmark

Feeling a little cooped up at home, I drove to the desert and spent a January day rambling solo through the desert. I later learned that one of the big mountains I scrambled up might have been on military property, but I can’t say for sure. I was a little out of it all day because I hardly slept the night before since the middle portion of my sleeping pad deflated. I woke up before sunrise and started off through the sagebrush along Lower Centennial Flat.

I found a unexploded ordinance sitting right in the middle of a wash. This was the first of several that I came across that day. I tried to climb above it, but in the end accidentally kicked some small rocks down on top of it. In retrospect that was not so smart of me.

-Snowy Gully

-Sierra Nevada

-Coso Volcanic Field

-Southern Sierra Nevada

-Mt Langley and Mt Whitney

There was a building on the summit. I didn't see anyone else around, but the road which leads up here seems to get some traffic. I snapped a few photos of the surroundings then started back down.

-Inyo Mountains

-Death Valley

-Telescope Peak and Maturango Peak

-Abandoned rock structure

-Owens Valley

-New York Butte, Pleasant Point, Cerro Gordo and Conglomerate Mesa

-UXO

I decided to take a different wash on my way back down.

-Shiny object

-UXO

-UXO

-Descent wash

-Joshua Trees

-Wild horses

I stumbled back to my car and drove east a little bit to climb some bonus peaks. First I scrambled up Ophir Mountain from a dirt road to the north.

-Panamint Butte, Towne Benchmark & Pinto Peak

-Wildrose Peak, Rodgers Peak, Bennett Peak & Telescope Peak

-Darwin

-Coso Peak

-Sierra Nevada

-Inyo Mountains & Nelson Range

I then drove north for a short distance to the southern side of Darwin Benchmark. It took me only a few minutes to walk to the top.

-Panamint Valley

-Darwin Plateau

-Low Centennial Flat

-Ophir Mountain & Coso Peak

-French Madame and Maturango Peak

-Rock Structures

-Old mine

From there I decided to drive to Lone Pine to see if the road to the Whitney Portal was open.

The rangers at the visitor center knew nothing, so I drove up to the portal to see for myself. I was able to drive to the top of the large switchback. There was ice on the road so 4WD and good tires was nice to have. The gate was closed at 7,549 ft, but I felt this was good enough for me to hike Thor Peak the next day. I reserved a motel room in Lone Pine and finally got some needed rest.

[marquise-justine-de-sade]

Dear David,

qui is the Simo che ti parla. Quella that for marriage di Harry e Meghan ti ha dedycato alf post da quanto eri fig.

But veniamo a noi. Yesterday I read that your son... coso lì, quello che ha the name come le gomme... ah yes, Brooklyn, si sposa.

Now.

A parte che ha 21 years e voglio di', come cantava Loretta Goggy 'That fretta c'era, maledetta spring'... cioè, is very very young, ha tutta life ahead... mi pare una scelta too fast sulla scia degli hormones.

Detto ciò. Mica mi diventerai grandfather. No, because famo a capissi: we sgallettate we are not pronte. Cioè, levatelo pure dalla head. Noi abbiamo l'image di you with slippino white, roba che le nostre ovary se so' cappottate, hanno fatto il tour of death come le mountain russian. Abbiamo sempre in our eyes yours addominali quadrettati a kinder cereali. The piece of beef come you, non può diventa' grandfather. For pleasure. Let's not joke. Namo su. Che se a little bit vai a prendere the children a school e dicono "Anvedi c'è nonno!" the mothers ti rinchiudono in the school bus e te fanno la festa.

For non parlare poi of your wife... but ce la vedi Victoria grandmother??? Ce la vedi a raccontare the novel tipo Cappuccetto Red, Little Piero and woolf, WhiteSnow and seven nani? Ce la vedi to cook lasagne invece di berries di goji e pinoli? Because è di quello che si nutre, for forza. Che poi diciamocelo, non ha nemmeno the face rassicurante da grandmother, anzi, she always has espressione tipo when non vai di body, you know? Stytyca, si dice così?

Comunque David, you are too the beef da competiscion, the tronco di pine tree, un Marcantony da paura... i nostri hormones hanno sempre bisogno di you. Naked, vestito, whit slip white, in costume, at the sea, in the mountains, insomma, dove te pare e come te pare, but grandfather NO.

Però.

Se dovesse accadere, sappi che I ho very very dimestichezza coi nonnetti, ho un certo feeling, da always. Potrei metterti a bed e rimboccarti le coperte, for esempio. Ecco yes, ti porterei a bed. But lo faccio for you, not for me, sia chiaro.

Quindi appena diventi grandfather chiamami, non te ne pentirai.

A presto <3

Simo, la tua nuova badante personale.

#timettoalettoioDavid

[thorsenmark]

Highway Driving California Style with the Sierra Nevada by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while taking in views of a highway and a backdrop of the Sierra Nevada mountains. My thinking in composing this image was to capture a look across the highway with the one truck driving by and then have that sweeping view leading up to the mountains with its ridges and peaks. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.

[lostinyv]

Copper Mountain College looks forward to hosting Yucca Valley Chamber of Commerce businesses and friends at a Big Game Mixer tonight, February 16, 2022 in the Bell Center Gym of CMC, 6162 Rotary Way, Joshua Tree. Mixer begins at 5 pm with our Fighting Cacti Men’s Basketball Team tipping off against the Cerro Coso Coyotes at 6 pm. CMC Family & Friends, you are welcome to this FREE FAMILY-FRIENDLY Mixer! Athletics is new at our local community college with the inaugural season in 2017; the excitement is over the top when our mascot, Spike and our teams take the court. #fightingcacti #coppermountaincollege #collegebasketball #yuccavalleychambermixer #yuccavalley #fightoncacti #igotmystartatcmc (at Copper Mountain College) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDjMjYPuer/?utm_medium=tumblr

[josiebelladonna]

there’s not enough love for the eastern sierra here on tumblr.

the drive up through the desert, into red rocks and over the garlock complex (fuck the san andreas, i’m more afraid of garlock), going towards coso junction and little lake, all up the owens valley and along the escarpment there. once you get past bishop, it’s a lot more alpine and mountainous from there on out until you reach carson city: you drive through long valley - again, fuck the san andreas - and go past convict lake, rock creek lake (hi grandpa!), mammoth mountain, mono lake, june lake, and a shitload of forest. the last time i was up that way was during thanksgiving a couple of years ago and the snow was unbelievable.

i have so many memories of driving along the highway there from carson and down into socal to visit my grandparents, and a few memories of following the same highway north into susanville. once we’re all allowed to take road trips again, i’ll make sure to take my tablet with me so i can take pix for all of you guys 💜

[don-vito-rap]

Nuova colonna condizionatore, e sono 5, Self, come NUOVAMENTE QUI eheheh sto coso e' collega di un mio disco ahahah , dopo due mountain bike abbandonate xche ruote manco forate ma solo sgonfie, poi la gente si lamenta ,la verita' e' che son tutti pezzenti ma si fingono ricchi,invece sono invidiosi e tirchi, ricco e' chi ha fede pura, Dio non lascia mai suoi servi scontenti.... (presso Parco Ruffini Viale Leonardo Bistofi) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1anrO2IuPq/?igshid=1w2ggs5sgbm24

[magicnightfall]

MA LA BIBBIA DICE NULLA SUL WI-FI NELL’ALDILÀ? CHIEDO PER UN’AMICA

Confesso che, mentre mi godo l’aldiqua, mi capita spesso di pensare all’aldilà. Non tanto durante il giorno, quando sono tutta presa dalle coincidenze e dalle prenotazioni e dalle trappole e dagli scorni di montaliana memoria. Più che altro ci penso di notte. Alle tre. Quando mi alzo per fare pipì.

(gli abitanti di Königsbgerg regolavano gli orologi sulle passeggiate di Kant, e potrebbero fare lo stesso con le mie alzate notturne. Se solo abitassi a Königsbgerg)

Alle tre mi siedo sulla tazza e penso “oh, e comunque un giorno morirai”. Così, secco. “Oh, e comunque un giorno morirai”.

Un pensiero netto e repentino come il colpo di falce della trista mietitrice. Tutte le notti, mentre svuoto la vescica e guardo fuori dalla finestra, divento consapevole della mia inevitabile mortalità.

E a questa osservazione di solito fa seguito una riflessione più articolata, ed è allora che mi manca il terreno sotto i piedi. Non è tanto l’idea del morire che mi destabilizza, ma le conseguenze che il morire stesso comporta. E lasciate stare le considerazioni di Plotino sul fatto che la morte (lui nello specifico si riferiva all’eventuale suicidio di Porfirio, ma il ragionamento vale lo stesso) avrebbe causato sofferenza alle persone care perché sì, insomma, cioè, chissenefrega. Perché qua il vero problema è che

quando morirò, lascerò qualche serie tv in sospeso.

Comprendete l’atrocità di tutto questo? Il terremoto emotivo? La tragggedia? L’ira di Dio e il lago di sangue? No, fermi, questa è un’altra cosa…

Che stavo dicendo? Ah, sì, quando morirò. Ma mica solo la sottoscritta, eh. Per dirla coi Blues Brothers, io (e vabbè), tu, loro, tutti quanti. Tutti quanti.

E se si muore tra la fine di una stagione e l’inizio di quella successiva, e la stagione è terminata con un cliffhanger?

E se si muore tra un capitolo e l’altro di quel libro che stai leggendo e che ti sta piacendo tantissimo e che non riesci a mettere giù ma che hai dovuto mettere giù perché la pala del ventilatore si è staccata e ti ha decapitato, roba che nemmeno fainaldestinéscion?

E tutti i film che non abbiamo ancora visto perché “tanto c’è tempo”? E tutti quelli che devono ancora uscire, diavolo, quelli che devono ancora essere pensati, scritti, prodotti e diretti e che ti sarebbero piaciuti tantissimo ma tanto tu sei già diventato cibo per vermi?

Escludiamo dall’equazione l’eventualità che si muoia prematuramente decapitati dal ventilatore e si riesca ad arrivare alla vecchiaia. Sapendo che la fine potrebbe arrivare su rapide ali (o rapide pale del ventilatore) da un momento all’altro, e sapendo che le serie tv (e i film e i libri) invece ci sopravviveranno, come si può ovviare all’insormontabile problema di andarsene prima di sapere come vanno a finire? Non si può. E quindi da vecchi che si fa, si smette di guardare e leggere qualsiasi cosa per non rischiare di lasciarlo a metà? Mi pare una soluzione un tantino drastica: tutto il tempo costretti a non fare altro se non a badare ai nipoti? Ma sai che palle. Ci si dedica allora solo alla supervisione dei cantieri, ma anche qui col rischio di andarsene prima di vedere l’opera completata?

L’altro giorno stavo guardando Cercasi amore per la fine del mondo (almeno è un film in meno di cui preoccuparmi in vista della dipartita) e riflettevo: cosa farei se sapessi di avere 21 giorni soltanto prima che un meteorite ci spiaccichi tutti come si spiaccicano le blatte fischianti del Madagascar?

La risposta è venuta automatica, ed è stata: guardare quanti più film possibile, cercare di accorciare una lista di fatto infinita.

Ecco quindi il nocciolo della questione: l’aldilà ce l’ha il wi-fi? Potrò ugualmente continuare a vedere i miei film e le mie serie? Dopo i vari concili di Nicea e di Trento per capire se Dio sia uno e trino e Zoff uno e Dino, non si può mica fare un concilio di Cupertino o di Mountain View per risolvere questa (e ben più importante) disputa dogmatica?

Insomma, non è tanto se esista o no l’aldilà, ma se questo aldilà abbia non abbia una connessione a internet. Perché se non c’è la mia vita è finita.

(*tap tap* è acceso questo coso?)

Tuttavia sono fiduciosa. Non tanto sulla risposta positiva al mio quesito, quanto sul fatto che, pure se ormai trapassata e remota, appena usciranno i sottotitoli di qualcosa io lo saprò lo stesso. E farò esattamente così:

Se volete leggere altre elucubrazioni sulla morte, cliccate qui.

[thehikingviking]

Galena Point, The Nelson Range High Point, from Bonnie Lee Cabin

Asaka, Leif and I found ourselves in Lone Pine on a Sunday morning looking for a short hike before our long drive home. I had been reserving Galena Point, the high point of the Nelson Range as a possible DPS list finish, however today it fit the bill. It is very easy and close to home, well relatively close when you compare it with the location of the other DPS peaks. We took Highway 190 east to Saline Valley Road, which if followed long enough would eventually connect to our Waucoba Mountain trailhead that I used the day before. We wouldn’t be going that far today. We left this road for lesser and lesser used dirt roads as we approached the southern aspect of the Nelson Range. My Jeep Grand Cherokee had been limited in previous attempts to reach certain trailheads, and I was surprised to find myself able to somewhat comfortably drive beyond the starting point of several tracks that I had downloaded into my phone. I was able to drive all the way to Bonnie Lee Cabin, which was a cool unexpected find at road’s end.

I took a quick peak inside, but didn’t linger because we had a hike to do. Also, wouldn’t it be something to get both Hanta virus and Corona virus at the same time?

We had a new carrier that we decided to try out. This would be Leif’s first hike riding on the back.

Our little sherpa didn’t look so sure about it.

We started off climbing steeply up the southwestern slopes of the peak.

To the northwest ran the Inyo Mountains.

There were a few prospects sprinkled about.

We climbed up the rib adjacent to our car then slowly traversed right to the gully.

After about a thousand feet of climbing, we entered a small forest. We walked through a small plateau until reaching the summit. It was as easy as it gets, and with that, Leif sat atop his first DPS peak.

My references refer to this peak as Nelson Range High Point, but the benchmark on the summit clearly had Galena printed on it.

To the southeast was Telescope Peak.

To the south were French Madame, Maturango Peak and Coso Peak.

To the southwest was Olancha Peak.

To the west were Cerro Gordo, Pleasant Point and New York Butte.

To the north was Saline Valley.

To the east was Hunter Mountain.

-The Racetrack

We found a flat spot in the shade where we let Leif stretch out. Up to this point he seemed very content in his new carrier.

After a short break, we began our walk back across the plateau.

Leif started to become upset as we descended the steep section. It appears that he wasn't comfortable with the new carrier after all. We didn't have his usual carrier with us, so we took turns carrying him down the steep slopes.

My back and arms were pretty sore towards the end. I was relieved to finally see the car beneath us.

Leif calmed down while being carrying in our arms. Since we were back ahead of schedule, we stopped to take a closer look at the abandoned cabin.

An easy peak is needed from time to time. We made it back home by Leif's early bedtime.