Breakfast with Jill, enjoying the nice morning.

First creek crossing with a motorcycle heading out of the canyon.

Panament Valley outside of Surprise Canyon.

Fine black gravel washing off the mountain.

Another white rock on the edge of the wash outside of the canyon.

Very little telescopes that you control with your cell phone.

Surprise Canyon

March 29 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F

Last night’s lecture was all about the Moon and again was quite good. After the lecture, we stood in lines to look through some of the big telescopes. This morning, Les fought with the telescope and finally saw the sun with sun spot. Jill sent him off in the Jeep to take pictures at Ballarat. The sun was too high to get anything of interest. On his way back, he took a run up Surprise Canyon. The road is heavily used, but rocky and gets very narrow the further into the canyon you go. The road is a cherry stem, into the Surprise Canyon Wilderness Area. There is likely a mine back at the end of the road. Les opted to stop at the second stream crossing. And yes, the stream was flowing.Read more