Hiking into a remote and isolated desert carry all of your life support can get quite interesting, especially when you are running out of supplies quicker than anticipated.
Crossing a mountain range where the terrain changes dramatically require constant change and adaptation. Just having one plan is a plan to fail.
We set up an outpost and remote campsite high on a ridge to keep the elevation that we gained. This introduces high winds and cooler temps. We brought light weight gear and 2 gallons of water, each.
We still ran out of water.
Working our way around the mountains we found ourselves fighting thorn bushes that bear hug you while pushing through them. hours of this kind of thrash will sap your energy levels and run you down.
Saying this place is remote is an understatement.
I was starting to go downhill a bit which was not something that I am used to. We started to feel the effects of this hike as we started to find caves.
Lord Dakkar is around 100 ft and appeared to follow a north/south axis on the entrance of the cave. There was continuing passage going into the mountain.
Some of the primary locations we got to did not have the caves that we were hoping to find but we did find a new cave that we discovered and named Lord Volitare.
The entrance to this cave was partially "gated" with logs and made us wonder what were they trying to keep from coming inside the cave?
It was obvious to us that we were not the first visitors and ancient America was present here. These places need to be protected to the highest regard and left as pristine as possible.
The cave itself was around 250 ft of passage and is pretty decorated.
The remaining leads did not work out as well and our hike back to camp was long and we ran out of water. Future explorations will require additional resources and personal to help with the efforts.
