On our way back to civilization, Amit and Mela went hiking while AC, Swaroop, and I hit an offroad trail in the Landcruiser. We traversed part of Twenty Mule Team Canyon in Furnace Creek- the very same trail used to transport Borax out of Death Valley in the late 1800's. The beginning of the trail was fairly sandy and easy to travel, but it soon became a very rough and rocky trail suitable only for high-clearance 4WDs. Thanks to great spotting by AC and Swaroop, we made it almost 20 miles into the trail and back without a scratch. The scenery was fantastic and we even saw a few petroglyphs along the canyon walls.

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Starting off on our offroad adventure!	(84K)	Parked in some deep sand	(81K)
Another view	(89K)	This was taken pretty far into the trail. You can see the size of some of the rocks here, although there were a lot more of them further on in the trail. In case you can't tell, that's the hood of the truck at the bottom of the pic	(139K)
This is a petroglyph Swaroop spotted on a rock face	(125K)	Swaroop and I on the trail with a huge rock wall behind us	(160K)
AC and I on the same part of the trail	(143K)	A bigger picture of where we were	(292K)
Most of the sand had blown off the truck at this point!	(95K)