13.4 miles, 9 hours

We walked a dirt road up and across Tarantula Mesa, then we had a rocky talus scramble off the mesa, which was challenging in a couple of places. Then we worked our way down a wash, then around the talus base of the mesa along a difficult route to find. We took a lot of time with the map to stay on course.

In the afternoon a new storm blew in with all the cold wind we could stand and covering the Henrys almost completely. Glad we got down when we did.

TRAIL NOTES:
At miles 33.4 and 33.6 the directions in the book are wrong, but the map is right. There is a solar tank with ok water at mile 31. 5 that looks dependable.