over memorial day weekend, we went down to the swell with our whole family, roland, and brian's youngest brother, michael. roland and michael came down for a day; the rest of us stayed for two days.
we explored a new area.
it was hot. 
i love these rock accretions and formations (and this hole, of course).
these patterns are gorgeous.
it was sunny.
our first night camping was fun. we pulled off the highway a little way and had a nice area to ourselves.
w climbing up a rock wall with the help of a rope.
we went to church sunday morning and then hit the desert again.
w climbed up to this ledge--so b wanted to try it too.
i didn't get pictures of w climbing up the first time--so he tried again. with a little less luck the second time around.
then s found her own ledge to climb up on.
we didn't find any rock art, which was surprising. but as we were hiking in the afternoon on the second day, i was bringing up the rear. i stopped when i saw the big horn sheep skull below and said "hey, are you not interested in this?"
and, of course, everyone was interested in it. especially brian; he said he had always wanted to find a big horn sheep skull. this was by far the highlight of our expedition.
b and w took turns (and sometimes me) carrying the skull carefully. b enjoyed placing in strategic locations to take pictures of it.
here it is among the yuccas...
...which, btw, are really nice too.
we finally found some real water--late in the second day. there was no water on this outing, which meant we were grateful that we brought more water than we usually carry for hikes.
i love the shadow on this one.
the skull in the sand.
you can sort-of see the sweat marks on b's shirt (that's why we took this picture).
our second night of camping was fun.
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