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On way to feature north of Highway 78, 2/8/10:

Feb 8, 2010 10:26:28 AM 33.1256086 115.9002149
Strange sandstone shapes:

Between above and following.
Small shells:


Saw a redish brown and black truantuala, but it went into its borrow before I had a chance to photograph it.

Feb 8, 2010 11:35:16 AM 33.1339663 115.9002203
Mound was not:


Large shells on north edge:


Feb 8, 2010 1:23:10 PM 33.1071711 115.8306599
Three mounds of no interest:


Feb 8, 2010 5:02:52 PM 33.0857241 115.7753044
Lodging before hike to "crater":


On way to "crater" 2/9/10:

Plate boundary (thin red straight line) goes along bottom and right side of Salton Sea. A fault is shown in blue.

Thick line is likely route. Thin line is 400-foot elevation.

Route refined with 1908 topographic map.

The red line is the straight-line eight-mile Path from van at 10:21 AM to geyser 1 to geyser 2 to geyser knoll to USGS marker to crystals to south end of mounds to lower third of mounds along ridge to east of crater to knob west of crater to north of power line where one 50 cal. clip was found to a high iron area near the hot rock to the van at 3:10 PM took about 5 hours. Given all the wandering and diversions around deep washes, it was more like 9 or 10 miles for an average of 2 miles per hour. Click on the image to see a larger one.

More strange sandstone shapes. How they became stacked is curious.

All finds:

Feb 9, 2010 10:21:08 AM 33.0676460 115.7770532
Looking at top of spring or mud geyser on side:

Geyser south side:


Geyser bottom:


Geyser north side:


Variety of sandstone, geyser pieces and rock:

Feb 9, 2010 10:26:16 AM 33.0670881 115.7768869
Geyser 2 top:

View north past Geyser mound to Salton Sea:

Feb 9, 2010 11:29:32 AM 33.0451101 115.7789683
Geodesic marker:

View south over typical swales. Walked toward hill on left thinking the ridge line was the one west of the "crater":


Destination:

Feb 9, 2010 2010 11:48:21 AM 33.0393165 115.7792580
Layered crystals ("stromatolites" and shells were found elsewhere) have no taste:

Feb 9, 2010 2010 12:02:25 PM 33.0367523 115.7797837
Southeast of mounds:

Top of seeping mound:

View east to other mounds:

View nort to Salton Sea from seeping mound:

View northwest from seeping mound:

Feb 9, 2010 1:45:55 PM 33.0539775 115.7977599
Panorama from top of hill on west most leg of trip:

Feb 9, 2010 2:39:57 PM 33.0737239 115.7841825
50 CAL clip found way north of powerlines way north of restricted Naval area. Designations on cartridges: SL4 (2), SL42 and LC43.

50 CAL bullet found separate from cartridge. Buck shot found at the first stop.

Feb 9, 2010 3:09:18 PM 33.9730000 118.2490000
Distorted self-portrate:

Feb 9, 2010 2010 3:10:15 PM 33.0810356 115.7784426
Hot rock found before high iron area: