40 m elevation gain with the rover parked at a 15ΒΊ pitch angle... judging by this rear hazcam image, there was some rougher driving there, at least toward the end. The rover's current location seems like a fairly significant detour from the route identified a few months ago, and there's a big patch of bedrock about 20 m uphill along its current heading.
I wonder if they've identified something interesting further upslope. This ground we're on is kind of rubbly, and I don't think we needed to come up this high if we were simply skirting that sand trap in the flats to the south. Perhaps that bedrock further up exposes material from a stratum we didn't sample back on Witch Hazel Hill? I have no objection to taking a look, but maybe you should pay me no mind... I'm the last person Ken Farley listens to when it comes to driving this rover π
