Vagmarken Hill - 3.11.2018
From the west entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, drive Park Boulevard 4.9 miles and park on the right side of the road in a dirt turnout... room for 10 cars... Vagmarken Hill (aka Point 4349) is on the other side of the road from the turnout.
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We walked around to the west side of Vagmarken and started uphill... there were several paths going up.
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Heading for the notch directly above Gail and Mel.
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Gail and Tom working their way up Vagmarken Hill... looking back down to the desert floor... with cars driving on Park Boulevard below.
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Mel is at the notch.
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At the notch... still can't see the Vagmarken summit.
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Gail and Tom at the notch.
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The summit of Vagmarken Hill... looks a little rugged... lets get closer.
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The closer I get, the more rugged it looks... the others in our group decided to relax while I continued.
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I spent at least 20 minutes looking for a route to the summit... all I could find was a Class 3 scramble... and I wasn't going to try it without anyone else with me... so I went back down to join the others... leaving this one for another day.
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Looking out at 'The Maze' from near the top of Vagmarken Hill.
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Heading back down.
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Gail working her way back down to the desert floor.
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Back on the desert floor... tracing our steps back to the car.
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Vagmarken Hill... an awesome pile of rocks... our hike was 1.1 miles roundtrip, gaining 479 feet of elevation.
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