Spangler Hills
After resupplying in Ridgecrest, we popped over to Spangler Hills recreation area for a week. I liked it…the first night. Then about 500 RVs rolled in with boom boxes and OHVs and motorcycles and set up miniature RV cities with loud party music and American flags with motorcycles appliquéd in the middle. Thankfully (and I bless them for it), they did abide by quiet hours and faithfully turned the music off at exactly 10 pm. Unfortunately for me, I am still on Mountain time and it seemed like 11 pm to me. Whereupon they got on their motorcycles and roared through the desert for a couple more hours. What is it about nighttime and the desert that is irresistible to drivers of motorized vehicles? Tungsten Hills: cars driving through your campsite at midnight. Saline Valley: jeeps driving over Steele Pass (and into your campsite) at 3:00 am. Spangler Hills: motorcycles roaring through the desert at midnight. I don’t get it. What if you fall into a mine shaft or get buried in a wash or drive into a river in the dark? Or just lose the road? Some of them are pretty hard to follow even in broad daylight.
I shot around all the RVs to capture this moonrise. I didn’t figure anyone would be interested in seeing 25 giant rigs huddled together as if awaiting the apocalypse..