11-2004 Exploring the Little Mule Mts. near Blythe Ca.

We arrived at the campsite around midnight Friday, and were greeted by

October and Paul. Jon had followed us out. We built a fire and all got

acquainted. The next day Saturday we waited until 1:00pm, for anyone

else and then departed for the Petroglyphs, it took us about 2 hours

to find them, stopped and took some photo's looked around, then

decided we should try to go around the north and west side of the Mule

Mts. To get back to the Bradshaw trail, after about two hours of

following trails and washes it was getting late and still we had not

got to Bradshaw trail yet, I was concerned about it getting dark

before we found familiar ground, so headed west down a wash and found

a ATV track to follow. That turned out to be fun as it went into and

out of washes and finally emerged on to Wiley's Well road about 10

miles from camp. That night we had another fire, from the wood we

picked up on the return run. Also Dave was at camp when we got back,

he had missed us by 30 to 45 minutes. Sunday Dave, October and Paul

were heading back home so we did a short run out to the Hauser Geode

beds did a little rock hounding a couple of hill climbs and departed

with the two rigs heading home. Monday, we headed over to Palo Verde

to gas up. We went via the Opal Hill mine road, after gas we hit the

Bradshaw trail heading west to Augustine pass trial.

Took Augustine

Pass, which is gradual climb up to the top and then drop down into a

deep wash that winds and twists is way to the north side of the

Chuckwalla Mts. Then on up to Corn springs campsite. This is a really

cool area, lots of Palm trees and Indian Petroglyphs, we spent the

night here, there was only one other camper there. The next morning,

Tuesday we departed corn springs at

8:00am heading for Chuckwalla springs trail, which is a high ridge

trail, you take a wash until it ends then you climb up out of it onto

a trail that rises up to 2100ft, great views of the Ford Dry Lake bed

to the north and the desert to the south overlooking the Bombing

range, we did not see any military jets this time. This trail ends

back

on the Bradshaw trail. We then headed back to camp as Jon was going to

head home that afternoon. We helped Jon air up and pack up then bid

goodbye to him. Ron and I proceeded to clean up the campsite and get

ready for the Leonoids Meteor shower that night, which was a bust.

Wed. morning we loaded the motor home and hooked up the jeep and were

on the road about 10:00am.

No one broke anything, it was only the second trip out wheeling for

October and Paul they had a really good time, Jon had never done that

type of wheeling before he especially liked the Chuckwalla Springs

trail. I got to try out my new lockers. The rigs were October and

Paul's TJ with a 4" lift and 33's, Dave's TJ stock,

Jon's Tacoma TRD,