Driving The Mojave Road

Took a drive out to the Mojave Road with Tom and his friends, we started at the Colorado River and made it to Kelbaker road where we ran out of time and everyone decided to head home since it was Sunday. I took along my big Pentax 6x7 120 format film camera and my Nexus 7 tablet. The Pentax takes great photos and the Nexus makes a great navigation device, I had downloaded all of the maps onto the device before leaving and used Backcountry Navigator Pro for the navigation app. It all really works great, don't think I'll be going back to my small screen Delorme anymore.

You can find all the info you want to know about the Mojave Road on this website http://www.mojave-road.com

B/W photos taken with the Pentax 6x7 with Ilford SFX 200 film, Red 25A filter and developed with Ilford DD-X

Driving the road thru the joshua tree forest


Somewhere in Lanfair Valley, next to the bus I think


This is on the Fort Piute Trail


This is the Fort Piute Valley / Canyon, you can see the remains of the fort in the lower left. The was running water in the stream.


Camped at Fort Piute


Cool old corral




Lots of petroglyphs along the way










Joshua Tree forest


Old cabin along the way


The Lava Beds near the Lava Tubes, this stuff is really hard to walk on!


Parked somewhere, can't remember but apparently I went for a walk...


Enough black & white, here is some color stuff from the Nexus 7

Sunrise at Fort Piute


Sunset at the Lava Beds


My truck after Tom's friends got hold of it at night


Nice old Native American trail


I stayed an extra night so this was my last night's setup before going home


Trying to catch the sunset reflection of Baker in my rear view window


Red Spotted Toad


More 'glyphs








Tom at the old cabin


Our caravan of vehicles


The frog shrine




Lots more photos of the trip are here on my gallery

Total Mylar Balloons this trip - 1 (not photographed)