Over the last three days we've spent the night on the eastern slope of the Panimounts? . . . great for early sun, dropped down to below sea level . . . by a couple hundred feet (the "She Beast" seemed to hate that. too much oxygen?), climbed out of the valley headed south-east toward some hot springs (where we spent the night), and worked our way into the north end of the Mojave.
The Mojave is lush compared to Death Valley in the early fall.
After climbing up to my favorite pass we turned off to find a place in the rocks. Climbing had been slow today, I'm starting to think that the fuel filters are getting clogged. With all the low grade fuel types that we've dumped into the tank, with some degree of filtering, the fact that we were still running the filters that had come with her when we acquired her, and that she would not drain out of the filter's drain unless the fuel pump was on, all lead me to believe that these filters were soon to be a thing of the past.
We had purchased a full set of filters and had them on the trailer, in one of the ammo boxes.
As we did some slow climbing, we talked about whether we should find some place to pull off. To let the rig cool down for an hour or so, change the filters, avoid any spilling of her toxic fluids on the earth, and then carry on.
We decided that climbing up-hill slowly was not that bad.