Last week it was 90 degrees. Today it was 30 and snowing 2529.4 miles 18.9 mpg 56 Hours and 26 Minutes total driving time 8110 +/- 40 feet Max Altitude -339 +/- 40 feet Min Altitude
Happenings
Travel adventures and just plain boring stuff
Death Valley 2012 – Day 7 – Death Valley to Sacramento
The Jeep with it’s final coat of desert dust A nice picnic area with snakes A beer after a 10 hour drive. Beer is good.
Death Valley 2012 – Day 6 – Racetrack and Ubehebe Mine
Today we headed out not quite bright and early enough for Jim to visit the Racetrack. (We picked up my parents at 8:15. He would have preferred 7, but he is accommodating.) It’s a long drive (an hour or so) from Furnace Creek to the turnoff to the Racetrack. Then you travel 29 miles of high clearance dirt road to actually get there. An enterprising company has started renting Jeeps in Death Valley, and...
Death Valley 2012 – Day Five – Gower Gulch and Hole in the Wall
Our plan for the day had an actual schedule, as we’d planned to meet my parents at noon at the Ranch. So as soon we woke up, we threw on hiking gear and headed for Gower Gulch. We got there a bit before 8 am and intended to do a loop hike that went through Gower Gulch, which we’d never hiked, then back through Golden Canyon, which we had. Since we’d hike Golden Canyon,...
Death Valley 2012 – Day Four – Johnson Canyon
After our exciting yesterday we wanted to head out again into the back country. For today we chose the west side and up Johnson Canyon. The trip to the Johnson Canyon Road turnoff is uneventful. Just 10 miles down the dirt West Side Road. I complained how rough the washboard road is. After 10 miles we see the sign, reset the trip meter and turn west up the alluvial fan. The road is rough...