West Side Tortugas Trek

Two bees embracing on an Ocotillo

It disturbs me to no end when people use the desert as a dumping ground.  Once they've done it, other people often view the dump as a convenient place to get rid of their stuff, too.  In the third photo here you can see that somebody has used a remote spot west of Tortugas to dump wooden pallets.  Now someone else has come along to dump sections of railroad ties that were probably used in a landscaping job.  Who knows what will come next?

Getting out of the sun



Convenient dumping ground



A tangle of Ocotillos



Looking south toward Bishop's Cap