Our last trip to Death Valley - our first time exploring the Backside of the Black Mountains - I mentioned that every time I visit my favorite National Park, I always seemed to come away with a longer list of places to see after the trip, than I had going in.
Of course, it happened again. After wandering around the Black Mountains for three full days - which included driving every road in the entire area - and before I'd even posted my stories of the adventure, I knew of several more places that I would take longer to explore than the entire original trip. So much for this being an "uninteresting" part of the park.
I contemplated bailing on the Grand Goal and If You Look Long Enough, trips in spring to try and wrap up my satisfy my Black Mountain curiosity - and surely, finish, once and for all, 
, my exploration of this range - but with the same thing likely to happen again, I realized that a little variety in the terrain would be nice, so I saved the places I'd discovered for my first trip of the fall. It would be a doozy, with four hikes in three days:
- Returning to Buckhorn Wash to hike an "awesome hidden mine" that I'd found mentioned in a cabin log.
- Wandering up a remote canyon to the ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ Mine, where an ore cart lay - waiting to be rolled by yours truly - in an unassuming adit.
- Retracing my steps - third time's a charm - to find a wascally wabbit carved into stone.
- Summiting Funeral Peak, enjoying a bit of rock art along the way.
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