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It's a bit cloudy this morning up on Gold Valley Road

04923-tent-gold-valley-road-800px.jpg Near the bottom of Gold Valley Road, looking north up Greenwater ValleyThumbnailsNice view back down toward Greenwater Valley from the tentNear the bottom of Gold Valley Road, looking north up Greenwater ValleyThumbnailsNice view back down toward Greenwater Valley from the tentNear the bottom of Gold Valley Road, looking north up Greenwater ValleyThumbnailsNice view back down toward Greenwater Valley from the tentNear the bottom of Gold Valley Road, looking north up Greenwater ValleyThumbnailsNice view back down toward Greenwater Valley from the tentNear the bottom of Gold Valley Road, looking north up Greenwater ValleyThumbnailsNice view back down toward Greenwater Valley from the tent

The nice thing about this is that I didn't wake up baking in my tent from hot morning sun, like I do on so many desert-camping mornings.

The breeze up here in the mountains is cool and there's an occasional gust of wind. that I occasionally have to put on my sweater, but whenever the sun peers brightly through gaps in the clouds, I begin to overheat and have to take it off.

I slept really well last night in the cool air and silence. It was near total darkness with no moon in the sky. I neither saw nor heard any wildlife, except for a few lizards on the ground. There don't seem to be any birds around here.

The only real noise was the wind. Sometimes I could hear gusts of it coming from miles away, which sometimes never arrived at my location. At other moments, those gusts did arrive, and the tent got blown around a bit making it quite noisy inside on occasion.